I'm using 2.6.30rc (git head as of yesterday) and getting a bunch of machines bootstrapped from the bare metal via PXE/pxelinux/nfsroot. nfsroot plainly *works*, as I've got several machines booting happily. But then I come to a machine with multiple NICs and IPMI, and things fall over. I have to manually specify the NIC to use or it goes into a DHCP-probing deadlock (cause undiagnosed but it looks identical to this one so may be identical): but if I give the NIC info by hand, I *still* see a deadlock: [ 89.613880] IP-Config: Complete: [ 89.616943] device=eth0, addr=192.168.14.15, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=192.168.14.1, [ 89.624921] host=spindle, domain=, nis-domain=(none), [ 89.630430] bootserver=192.168.14.18, rootserver=192.168.14.18, rootpath= [ 90.333195] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX [ 90.340668] 0000:03:00.0: eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO [ 325.182384] INFO: task swapper:1 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 325.188653] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 325.196473] swapper D 00000014 0 1 0 [ 325.201766] f7061eec 00000046 dd66aa4a 00000014 00000000 00000000 00000000 c05d1480 [ 325.209749] c05d1480 00000000 00000000 f705ec40 f705eed4 c2805480 00000000 ded7f8e3 [ 325.217743] 00000014 00000000 c0548160 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 f705eed4 [ 325.225742] Call Trace: [ 325.228202] [<c0408ebc>] schedule+0x8/0x17 [ 325.232391] [<c0408fa6>] schedule_timeout+0x17/0x164 [ 325.237454] [<c01346d1>] ? __wake_up+0x31/0x3b [ 325.241987] [<c040844e>] wait_for_common+0xaa/0xfc [ 325.246872] [<c013ae99>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0xd [ 325.252271] [<c0408512>] wait_for_completion+0x12/0x14 [ 325.257498] [<c014d003>] flush_cpu_workqueue+0x59/0x62 [ 325.262720] [<c014ced7>] ? wq_barrier_func+0x0/0xd [ 325.267605] [<c014d177>] flush_workqueue+0x2b/0x49 [ 325.272485] [<c014d1a2>] flush_scheduled_work+0xd/0xf [ 325.277626] [<c0585578>] kernel_init+0x10e/0x152 [ 325.282340] [<c058546a>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x152 [ 325.287045] [<c011d8cf>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 Its cause is unclear. I'd expect to see something like Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.14.18 Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.14.18 VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly on device 0:15. at this point, but I don't. Just dead silence. The boot parameters were: root=/dev/nfs ip=192.168.14.15:192.168.14.18:192.168.14.1:255.255.255.0:spindle:eth0:off nfsroot=/mnt/spindle-root console=ttyS0,115200 (IP addresses are definitely correct, and the interface name is apparently correct because we can see it bring the link up in the kernel messages: if I use the other interface name, there's no such chatter in the log.) (I'm using IPMI and a serial console, with the console redirected by IPMI over the same NIC: but as this uses a distinct MAC --- hell, a distinct processor --- it surely can't interfere. Can it?) Any ideas? Am I missing something obvious? (Probably.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
