Bug#441039: linux-image-2.6-amd64: 3com NIC stops working after some time
Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64
Severity: normal
I've found the following in /var/log/syslog:
[ 2442.499383] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
[ 2442.499396] eth1: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status 8601.
[ 2442.499405] diagnostics: net 0cc8 media 8880 dma 0000003a fifo 8800
[ 2442.499410] eth1: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
[ 2442.499517] Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 169764(4) current 169764(4)
[ 2442.499521] Transmit list 00000000 vs. dfa4e480.
[ 2442.499526] 0: @dfa4e200 length 8000002a status 0001002a
[ 2442.499529] 1: @dfa4e2a0 length 8000002a status 0001002a
[ 2442.499533] 2: @dfa4e340 length 8000002a status 8001002a
[ 2442.499536] 3: @dfa4e3e0 length 8000002a status 8001002a
[ 2442.499539] 4: @dfa4e480 length 80000036 status 00010036
[ 2442.499543] 5: @dfa4e520 length 8000004a status 0001004a
[ 2442.499546] 6: @dfa4e5c0 length 8000004a status 0001004a
[ 2442.499549] 7: @dfa4e660 length 8000002a status 0001002a
[ 2442.499552] 8: @dfa4e700 length 8000002a status 0001002a
[ 2442.499555] 9: @dfa4e7a0 length 8000002a status 0001002a
[ 2442.499559] 10: @dfa4e840 length 8000002a status 0001002a
[ 2442.499562] 11: @dfa4e8e0 length 8000002a status 0001002a
[ 2442.499566] 12: @dfa4e980 length 8000002a status 0001002a
[ 2442.499569] 13: @dfa4ea20 length 8000002a status 0001002a
[ 2442.499572] 14: @dfa4eac0 length 8000002a status 0001002a
[ 2442.499576] 15: @dfa4eb60 length 8000002a status 0001002a
[ 2442.499580] eth1: Resetting the Tx ring pointer.
same as Ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/109629
Nekomancer wrote on 2007-08-21: (permalink)
2.6.23-rc3 fixed the issues for me. Several changes have been made to the genirq code, which I'm guessing is what fixed it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6-amd64 depends on:
pn linux-image-2.6.21-2-amd64 <none> (no description available)
linux-image-2.6-amd64 recommends no packages.
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