Why the interface corresponding to Mellanox card did not came up at reboot ?
Issue
- The interface did not came and the corresponding Mellanox card is not seen in
lspcioutput. - Below are the logs and error at the time of booting.
kernel: mlx4_en: Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver v1.4.2.2 (Nov 2009)
kernel: mlx4_en 0000:07:00.0: Activating port:1
kernel: mlx4_en: 0000:07:00.0: Port 1: Using 5 TX rings
kernel: mlx4_en: 0000:07:00.0: Port 1: Using 9 RX rings
kernel: mlx4_en 0000:07:00.0: Activating port:2
kernel: mlx4_en: 0000:07:00.0: Port 2: Using 5 TX rings
kernel: mlx4_en: 0000:07:00.0: Port 2: Using 9 RX rings
[...]
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: Internal error detected:
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[00]: 00309cab
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[01]: 00000000
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[02]: 20080258
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[03]: 00000000
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[04]: 00309c78
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[05]: 82000004
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[06]: 1df54000
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[07]: 003bff90
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[08]: 000fb8dd
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[09]: 00000001
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[0a]: 00b00190
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[0b]: 00000000
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[0c]: 00000000
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[0d]: 00000000
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[0e]: 00000000
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: buf[0f]: 00000000
kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:07:00.0 disabled
kernel: mlx4_core: Initializing 0000:07:00.0
[...]
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: command 0x7 failed: fw status = 0x1
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: INIT_HCA returns -5
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: INIT_HCA command failed, aborting.
kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:07:00.0 disabled
kernel: mlx4_core 0000:07:00.0: Reset failed (-5)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6
- Mellanox network interface card.
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