Kernel panic may be observed on HP ProLiant G7 systems, running iLO3 firmware 1.80 or earlier
Issue
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HP ProLiant G7 systems running iLO 3 with iLO firmware version 1.80 or earlier, with with HP System Health Application and Command Line Utilities for Linux (
hp-health
) services running, panic. A fixed pattern is written across locations in system memory (tens of MiB). When these locations are dereferenced, a panic ensues. -
A "Power restored to iLO" message is seen in the iLO event log.
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The issue usually occurs after an iLO uptime of 40 days or more.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- HP ProLiant G7 systems.
- iLO 3 with firmware version 1.80 or earlier and usually with an uptime of 40 days or more.
- HP System Health Application and Command Line Utilities for Linux (
hp-health
).
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