Server with 3TB Crashing at boot

[Michael Fuckner]

On 3/14/2015 3:56 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 03:41:55PM +0100, Michael Fuckner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In the Processor Configuration tab there also was
>>>> extended apic support (default is disabled)
>>> On 10.1 this option should not result in any behaviour change.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Should I give this option a try?
>>>
>>> Up to you.  I am somewhat curious whether it boots with DMAR enabled and
>>> what happens if it does not.
>>> ____
>>
>> looks good, doesn't it?
>>
>> http://dedi3.fuckner.net/~molli123/temp/dmar.log
> No, it does not.  At least I suspect that your ix* interfaces are not
> functional.  The issue is with DMAR code, not with the ixgbe driver, and
> it was probably fixed in stable/10.

why do you think it is not working?

root at s4l:~ # ping dedi3.fuckner.net
PING dedi3.fuckner.net (81.169.184.133): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 81.169.184.133: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=15.522 ms
64 bytes from 81.169.184.133: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=11.266 ms



[root at mf5 ~]# grep ix0 dmar.log
ix0: Link is Down
ix0: link state changed to DOWN
ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver, Version - 2.5.15> 
port 0x4020-0x403f mem 0xaaa00000-0xaabfffff,0xaac04000-0xaac07fff irq 
32 at device 0.0 on pci1
ix0: attempting to allocate 9 MSI-X vectors (64 supported)
ix0: using IRQs 272-280 for MSI-X
ix0: Using MSIX interrupts with 9 vectors
ix0: dmar3 pci0:1:0:0 domain 2 mgaw 48 agaw 48 re-mapped
ix0: bpf attached
ix0: Ethernet address: c4:54:44:92:73:d2
ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0GT/s Width x8
ix0: Link is up 1 Gbps Full Duplex
ix0: ix0: link state changed to UP
ix0: link state changed to DOWN
Starting Network: lo0 ix0 ix1 ix2 ix3.
ix0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFix0: LiDISABLED,AUTO_LInk is up 1 
Gbps Full Duplex
         mediaix0: link state changed : Ethernet autosto UP
DHCPREQUEST on ix0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67


I'll checkout STABLE to check now...

Regards,m
  Michael!