[ale] Server rebooting

[Erik Mathis]

How about finding an older version of the e1000 driver?

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Collin Pruitt <collin at collinp.com> wrote:
> My thought is that the NIC driver is causing the kernel to panic, crash
> over and cause a reboot loop. I had a system do that to me a while back
> - I downgraded the kernel version and it worked fine afterwards, but I'm
> not sure that's an option on a production server that requires tight
> security because downgrading would re-introduce any security flaws that
> were fixed in the problematic version.
>
> On 3/14/2012 3:45 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
>> I have an interesting problem.
>>
>> Today I had a server reboot constantly.  Luckily I have headless remote
>> access and remote power control.  Server is 30 miles away and I'm
>> working on it.
>>
>> It would reboot after 'Starting udev'.  After telling it to run sh as
>> init I've determined that whenever I load the e1000 nic driver for the
>> two interfaces it reboots.  I've blacklisted them, but have no network.
>> I thought this was good, but it rebooted.  I've set acpi=off and it
>> seems stable now.
>>
>> At this point I have tared, compressed and bas64 converted stuff I want
>> here so that I can setup a virtual machine.  I have converted console to
>> 115200 and I will cat the base64 to the tty and capture to disk here.
>> I'll convert that back to binary.
>>
>> Even with acpi off I can not load the e1000 drivers.  One option is to
>> drive down there and install a USB adapter until a new system can be
>> purchased.  I'm trying to avoid a trip.
>>
>> Server fine for years now behaving crazy.  Any ideas?
>>
>> Chris
>
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