kernel: irq 59: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)

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Hello Helpers,

I am seeing the below logs in my RHEL5 64Bit Linux machine. Could anyone help me on this to find what causes the logs appeared.

kernel: irq 59: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
kernel:
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: [] __report_bad_irq+0x30/0x7d
kernel: [] note_interrupt+0x1f1/0x232
kernel: [] __do_IRQ+0x114/0x15b
kernel: [] do_IRQ+0xe9/0xf7
kernel: [] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
kernel: [] __do_softirq+0x51/0x133
kernel: [] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
kernel: [] do_softirq+0x2c/0x7d
kernel: [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0x6c
kernel: [] :e1000:e1000_watchdog_task+0x5d2/0x636
kernel: [] :e1000:e1000_watchdog_task+0x0/0x636
kernel: [] run_workqueue+0x9e/0xfb
kernel: [] worker_thread+0x0/0x122
kernel: [] worker_thread+0xf0/0x122
kernel: [] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe
kernel: [] kthread+0xfe/0x132
kernel: [] child_rip+0xa/0x11
kernel: [] vgacon_cursor+0x0/0x1a5
kernel: [] kthread+0x0/0x132
kernel: [] child_rip+0x0/0x11
kernel:
kernel: handlers:
kernel: [] (e1000_intr+0x0/0x127 [e1000])
kernel: Disabling IRQ #59
kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
ntpd[12849]: ntpd 4.2.2p1@1.1570-o Tue Oct 25 12:54:50 UTC 2011 (1)
ntpd[12849]: logging to file /var/log/ntpd.log
kernel: nfs: server kolkata.service.group not responding, timed out
kernel: nfs: server kolkata.service.group not responding, timed out...

Many thanks,
Amit Saha

AS
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Jamie Bainbridge's picture Red Hat Guru 7257 points
22 January 2014 10:49 AM

RHEL5 e1000 driver crashes when run as VMware guest
https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/34279

Server crashed with message "irq 177: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)"
https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/64849

David Powles's picture Red Hat 25369 points
24 January 2014 9:41 AM

Amit,

Just a tip: It's always a good idea to try searching the portal with the error message you receive. Searching for "kernel: irq 59: nobody cared" and filtering your search to "solutions" quickly turns up the articles Jamie posted above.

Let us know if they help to resolve your issue.

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