System is panicking at the time of boot after upgrading the NIC firmware

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • System is panicking at the time of boot after upgrading the NIC firmware.
  • System is able to boot in single user mode but throws the panic messages in runlevel-3:
  • Panic messages:

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         Virtual Drives Keyboard
 -sl: f6918400 edy: f6918464 ebp: 00000000  esp: c0748f80
 s: 007b  es: 007b  ss: 0068
Orocess swapper bpid: 0, tibc0748000 task=c068a3c0 task.tibc0704000, 
etack: 00000000 00000001 f6918408 f691a50c f6918400 f89afalc 00000040 00
      00000000 00000001 00000040 c0748fd0 f6918000 00000000 f89adbd6 00
      f6918000 c3013e00 cO5c2c35 fffc2c5f 0000012c c0704f5c 00000001 c0 
 all Trace:
 [<f89afalc>] be_pollbOx89,0x103 [be2net]
 [<f89adbd6>] be_poll_compatbOx1,0x35 [be2net]
 [<c05c2c35>] net_rx_actionbOx9,0xla7
 [<c042a377>] _do_softirgbOx87,0x114
 [<c04073cf>] do softirgbOx52,0x9c
 [<c044f150>]  do IEBY0x0K0xd6
 [<c04074ce>] do IEQ.0.5,0xc3
 [<c0405946>] common_interruptbOxlaK0x20
 [<c0530611>] acpi_processor idle_simplebOx111,0x254
 [<c0403caB>] cpu_idlebOx9fK0.9
 [<c07099fa>] start_kernelbOx37,0x383

 Code: 53 83 ec 04 8d 78 64 8d 80 a4 00 00 00 e8 Be lb c7 c7 c7 04 24 00 
 eb 49 86 43 Oc a9 00 00 00 40 74 20 Of b6 c4 48 74 08 <Of> Ob 84 00 44 
 31 d2 89 fel 80 7b 01 01 Of 94 c2 e8 14
1 IP: [<f89ac36a>] be_process_mcce0x32,0xf1 Ibe2netl SS:ESP 0068:c0748f80 
 <0>Eernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • Kernel-2.6.18-186.el5
  • NIC card: '1 8-port (8) ServerEngines Corp. Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC (be3) (rev 01)'
  • be2net NIC drivers.

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