On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 08:49 -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: > Got some serious issues with a brand new hp dl380 g5 running debian > lenny. > > The machine seems to have issues with intermittent network connectivity. > It'll work for awhile and then stop working. The real bugger is that I'm > having diagnose this remotely. > > Initially we thought it was a bad hp NC360T add-on card (intel e1000e > driver based card, which debian had setup as eth0 and 1). I switched > the interfaces to use the internal ethernet (eth2 and 3) which I believe > is a bnx2 based chipset. > > It worked and I thought that fixed the issue until about 9 hours later > it started doing the exact same thing (no connectivity, or it'll start a > connection and then the connection will lock up). > > I've got these people going over all the network/firewall/switch/routers > to make 100% sure its not a networking issue, but I'm pretty sure its > something with the actual server itself. > > I've also got an admin running hp's diagnostic cd against the machine > (i'm guessing, its something similar to dell's linux diagnostics cd) > > Has anyone else seen anything like this? Maybe an IRQ sharing issue > (only guessing cuz I was reading other posts talking about issues with > HPs and shared IRQs here on HP's IT resource forums)? > > The messed up thing is there is NO indicator of any issues in the dmesg > output on the server. Ugh :(
Think I found a bug in the linux-image security update on the 20th. Reverted and seems to have fixed the problem. Great, I guess :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
