NetXen NIC firmware hang detected on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue
- An HP machine with ASR (Automatic System Recovery - HP process) enabled rebooted with firmware hangs in the logs. Below is a snippet from the messages log showing the firmware hang messages followed by a system boot (ASR stepped in and rebooted the machine).
Dec 29 21:59:25 hostname kernel: eth0: firmware hang detected
Dec 29 21:59:25 hostname kernel: eth1: firmware hang detected
Dec 29 21:59:25 hostname kernel: eth2: firmware hang detected
Dec 29 21:59:25 hostname kernel: eth3: firmware hang detected
Dec 29 21:59:25 hostname firmware_helper[22079]: Loading of /lib/firmware/phanfw.bin for netxen_nic driver failed: No such file or directory
Dec 29 21:59:25 hostname firmware_helper[22122]: Loading of /lib/firmware/nx3fwct.bin for netxen_nic driver failed: No such file or directory
Dec 29 21:59:25 hostname kernel: bonding: bond0: link status definitely down for interface eth0, disabling it
Dec 29 21:59:25 hostname kernel: bonding: bond0: now running without any active interface !
Dec 29 21:59:25 hostname kernel: bonding: bond0: link status definitely down for interface eth1, disabling it
Dec 29 21:59:25 hostname kernel: cmanicd[7338]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000003187678670 rsp 0000000041617968 error 4
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- HP Hardware
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