e1000 driver no longer working with an autonegotiate value (ETHTOOL_OPTS)

Issue

• System hangs up when network services are restarted or that will hang during reboot and also not come up on the network if there are any of the following values in the ifcfg-eth0 file:

ETHTOOL_OPTS="autoneg on"
ETHTOOL_OPTS="autoneg off speed 100 duplex full"
ETHTOOL_OPTS="autoneg off speed 1000 duplex full"

• Note that the behavior is that the system will hang during reboot. Even when there is no network connectivity, the system will eventually time out during the bring up of all network related services, and present a login prompt.

Bringing up loopback interface:  [  OK  ]
11:54:18 Bringing up interface eth0:  e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX
11:54:18 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
11:54:18 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
11:54:18 e1000 0000:01:01.0: eth0: Reset adapter
11:54:22 [  OK  ]
11:54:29 powernow-k8: Found 2 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 (4 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
11:54:29 [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found.
11:54:29 [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Try again with latest BIOS.
11:54:29 ipmi message handler version 39.2
11:54:29 IPMI System Interface driver.
11:54:29 ipmi_si: Adding SMBIOS-specified kcs state machine
11:54:29 ipmi_si: Trying SMBIOS-specified kcs state machine at i/o address 0xca2, slave address 0x20, irq 0
11:54:30 ipmi: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x00002a,  prod_id: 0x4701, dev_id: 0x20)
11:54:30 IPMI kcs interface initialized
11:54:30 ipmi device interface
11:54:31 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <<a class="make_room_for_kcs" href="mailto:greearb@candelatech.com">greearb@candelatech.com</a>>
11:54:31 All bugs added by David S. Miller <<a class="make_room_for_kcs" href="mailto:davem@redhat.com">davem@redhat.com</a>>
11:54:31 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device eth0
11:54:31 cnic: Broadcom NetXtreme II CNIC Driver cnic v2.5.10 (March 21, 2012)
11:54:31 bnx2fc: Broadcom NetXtreme II FCoE Driver bnx2fc v1.0.11 (Apr 24, 2012)
11:56:31 openafs: module license '<a class="make_room_for_kcs" href="http://www.openafs.org/dl/license10.html" target="_blank">http://www.openafs.org/dl/license10.html</a>' taints kernel.
11:56:31 Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
11:56:31 enabling dynamically allocated vcaches
11:56:37 Starting AFS cache scan...found 3822 non-empty cache files (3%).
11:57:42 INFO: task events/2:21 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
11:57:42 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
11:57:42 events/2      D 0000000000000002     0    21      2 0x00000000
11:57:43  ffff88007ebdbb90 0000000000000046 0000000000000000 0000000000000008
11:57:43  0000000000016680 0000000000016680 ffff8800f613c000 0000000000016680
11:57:43  ffff88007ebb2638 ffff88007ebdbfd8 000000000000fb88 ffff88007ebb2638
11:57:43 Call Trace:
11:57:43  [<ffffffff814fe6a5>] schedule_timeout+0x215/0x2e0
11:57:43  [<ffffffff810096f0>] ? __switch_to+0xd0/0x320
11:57:43  [<ffffffff814fe323>] wait_for_common+0x123/0x180
11:57:43  [<ffffffff81060250>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x20
11:57:43  [<ffffffff814fe43d>] wait_for_completion+0x1d/0x20
11:57:43  [<ffffffff8108d093>] __cancel_work_timer+0x1b3/0x1e0
11:57:43  [<ffffffff8108cbe0>] ? wq_barrier_func+0x0/0x20
11:57:43  [<ffffffff8108d0f0>] cancel_work_sync+0x10/0x20
11:57:43  [<ffffffffa0224ca5>] e1000_down_and_stop+0x25/0x50 [e1000]
11:57:43  [<ffffffffa022a695>] e1000_down+0x155/0x200 [e1000]
11:57:43  [<ffffffffa022acb0>] ? e1000_reset_task+0x0/0xe0 [e1000]
11:57:43  [<ffffffffa022ad1e>] e1000_reset_task+0x6e/0xe0 [e1000]
11:57:43  [<ffffffff8108c760>] worker_thread+0x170/0x2a0
11:57:44  [<ffffffff810920d0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
11:57:44  [<ffffffff8108c5f0>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x2a0
11:57:44  [<ffffffff81091d66>] kthread+0x96/0xa0
11:57:44  [<ffffffff8100c14a>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
11:57:44  [<ffffffff81091cd0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
11:57:44  [<ffffffff8100c140>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
11:59:29 [Detached by <a class="make_room_for_kcs" href="mailto:radmer@console.slac.stanford.edu">radmer@console.slac.stanford.edu</a>]
11:59:44 INFO: task events/2:21 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
11:59:44 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
11:59:44 events/2      D 0000000000000002     0    21      2 0x00000000
11:59:44  ffff88007ebdbb90 0000000000000046 0000000000000000 0000000000000008
11:59:44  0000000000016680 0000000000016680 ffff8800f613c000 0000000000016680
11:59:44  ffff88007ebb2638 ffff88007ebdbfd8 000000000000fb88 ffff88007ebb2638
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