We tried to use the new kernel, and it failed. It booted, but ipv6 was
enabled, which appeared to make Jenkins only listen on the IPv6
addresses. Once I disabled IPv6, I realized eth3 (our internal Mellanox
10GbE card, ironically enough) was not visible to the system.

It then became apparent that something had activated some firewall rules
that weren't activated before (port 8080 wasn't accessible on the
internal network).  Attempting to flush the iptables rules resulted in a
complete locked. Bryon rebooted, I removed the upgraded kernel, and
reverted to the default 10.04 kernel. The firewall rules that were
blocking access to port 8080 went away when we reverted to the default
10.04 kernel. I wonder if something changed the default INPUT policy to
DROP?

I realized later that I did not try to modprobe the module for the
Mellanox card, but that did not occur to me, since we had never had to
do that manually before.

We really cannot take this system down again.  This is a system that
costs us several hundred dollars per hour for downtime.

Unless you have other ideas, we will have to find another way to trouble
shoot this bug.

** Tags added: kernel-unable-to-test-upstream

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