Re: [E1000-devel] igb driver sometimes stops responding after dkms build

2015-06-08 Thread Brandon Whaley
Thanks for the input everyone. I went over notes from previous outages of this kind and we have checked that the port was not disabled in the past, but I'll make sure we check again next time to be sure. I'm unable to run ethregs as root due to what I assume is a security related kernel config (m

Re: [E1000-devel] igb driver sometimes stops responding after dkms build

2015-06-08 Thread Ronciak, John
We think that maybe you are having link issues since the problem is intermittent and moving from machine to machine. If it more repeatable on a since system we could do more. Please check the link at the switch port to see if it think it has link on that failing system. Thanks. Cheers, John

Re: [E1000-devel] igb driver sometimes stops responding after dkms build

2015-06-08 Thread Fujinaka, Todd
ethregs would be my choice. ethtool -d also gives some information. Todd Fujinaka Software Application Engineer Networking Division (ND) Intel Corporation todd.fujin...@intel.com (503) 712-4565 -Original Message- From: Fujinaka, Todd [mailto:todd.fujin...@intel.com] Sent: Monday, June 08

Re: [E1000-devel] igb driver sometimes stops responding after dkms build

2015-06-08 Thread Brandon Whaley
It is a switch, and I can certainly check the switch next time this happens. The only thing that makes me think it's local to the box is the repeated "Link is Up" messages that occur until reboot. How would I go about getting a dump of the registers if this happens again? On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at

Re: [E1000-devel] igb driver sometimes stops responding after dkms build

2015-06-08 Thread Fujinaka, Todd
It's difficult to troubleshoot a problem that's erratic and hard to replicate. A dump of the registers and status from the link partner would be a good idea. I wonder if it isn't something triggered on the other side (is it a switch?) that sees something odd and disables the port, and a reboot j

[E1000-devel] igb driver sometimes stops responding after dkms build

2015-06-08 Thread Brandon Whaley
I use dkms to build the igb driver after new kernel installs on my fleet of servers using the following commands after every yum update: dkms build -m igb -v 5.2.18 dkms install -m igb -v 5.2.18 About once a month, one of my boxes (a different one each time) will stop responding after this. Noth