Last night I made a trip to the datacenter, to update the SmartOS thumb drive
on our lab/test machine, an HP DL160G6. What was supposed to be a quick easy
reboot turned into an hour of head scratching.
Long story short: after upgrading from 20150625T055522Z to 20151015T063628Z
the machine appeared to not come back online. Further examination revealed
that the host had in fact booted all the way, but the NICs weren't found. But
ifconfig plumb was able to provision them. So the driver is there, but it
didn't set things up properly on the way up. A full power-off reboot (init 5
with a wait before ipmi power-on) yielded the same results.
This was made all the more remarkable by the fact that Saturday night another
DL160G6 at home got the exact same upgrade and it went just fine.
The only difference of note in the configurations between these machines is
that the one at the datacenter has two nics active ("admin" and "vlan", which
are untagged/admin-only and tagged/vms respectively), while the one at home
runs everything through the "admin" port.
The NICs are nothing special. Intel 82576 / "NC362i Integrated Dual port
Gigabit Server Adapter", built in to the motherboard. They seem to be
identical right down to the device and vendor IDs.
f4-ce-46-b0-39-7a was happy with the upgrade. f4-ce-46-bc-29-92 was not:
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/res3066/public/dmesg-out-f4-ce-46-b0-39-7a.txt
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/res3066/public/prtconf-out-f4-ce-46-b0-39-7a.txt
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/res3066/public/sysinfo-out-f4-ce-46-b0-39-7a.txt
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/res3066/public/dmesg-out-f4-ce-46-bc-29-92.txt
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/res3066/public/prtconf-out-f4-ce-46-bc-29-92.txt
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/res3066/public/sysinfo-out-f4-ce-46-bc-29-92.txt
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/res3066/public/sick-f4-ce-46-bc-29-92.txt
Anyone got an idea what might have gone wrong or what other data I ought to
provide?
Thanks,
-r
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