[Bug 406626] New: Network freeze on Dell Precision 490 workstation

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6 Jul 2008 6 Jul '08

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626 Summary: Network freeze on Dell Precision 490 workstation Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: nteknikk@monet.no QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Other After successful installation of openSUSE 11 on two machines, a new hp8710w mobile workstation with x86_64 and an old K7 PC with i386, the installation attempt on my primary workstation, a Dell Precision 490 Xeon 3Ghz, has just frozen so far after login. It's remarkable as P490 is running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 quite ok, and I try to use the corresponding network setup. P490 does include an embedded Dell NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit PCI Express network interface. Trying YaST Network setup using Network Manager (as on 10.3) it doesn't get Internet access and doesn't find an update server during installation. (else fixed internal IP addresses for local host and for the router on standard system port, host name save in /etc/hosts, DNS1 internal IP address, DNS2 and DNS3 external IP address. Didn't check the new option for openSUSE 11: Change Default Route via DHCP). Short time after login to Gnome or even before, the system does freeze; no switch to text consol is possible. Power off is the only option. As this is installed as a dual boot system, I also tried from 10.3 to copy the content from /etc/resolv.conf on 10.3 to 11.0. But after login to 11.0, this file content was cleared empty by Network Manager. Trying YaST network setup with traditional method with iftup instead, it is possible to login, get Internet access, but soon the system does freeze also here as above. Therefore so far, I've had to continue with openSUSE 10.3 on this workstation. Some driver problem, possibly some log messages to provide here for trouble shooting? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 406626] Network freeze on Dell Precision 490 workstation

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626 User nteknikk@monet.no added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626#c1 --- Comment #1 from Terje Hanssen 2008-07-06 06:00:46 MDT --- Forgot to mentione that the first two machines are set up with DHCP on another network at home. P490 is running on an office network using an OES2 DNS server (and DHCP for some clients). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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9 Jul 9 Jul

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New subject: [Bug 406626] Network freeze on Dell Precision 490 workstation

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626 User terje@nordland-teknikk.no added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626#c2 --- Comment #2 from Terje J. Hanssen 2008-07-09 17:10:56 MDT --- The installation is made using a local DVD drive, both with a burned openSUSE 11.0 x86_64 DVD and now also from a retail DVD9. Below is also y2logs for openSUSE 11 (created from 10.3 running and installed in dualboot on the same hardware). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626 User terje@nordland-teknikk.no added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626#c3 --- Comment #3 from Terje J. Hanssen 2008-07-09 17:15:28 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=226872) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=226872) y2logs.tgz -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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18 Jul 18 Jul

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New subject: [Bug 406626] Network freeze on Dell Precision 490 workstation

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626 User chrubis@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626#c4 Cyril Hrubis changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com --- Comment #4 from Cyril Hrubis 2008-07-18 04:53:45 MDT --- Hard freeze is probably related to bug in hardware/kernel. Moving to kernel maintainers. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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8 Aug 8 Aug

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626 User jeffm@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626#c5 Jeff Mahoney changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jeffm@novell.com Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |terje@nordland-teknikk.no --- Comment #5 from Jeff Mahoney 2008-08-08 11:41:24 MDT --- Are you using reiserfs? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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9 Aug 9 Aug

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New subject: [Bug 406626] Network freeze on Dell Precision 490 workstation

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626 User terje@nordland-teknikk.no added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626#c6 --- Comment #6 from Terje J. Hanssen 2008-08-09 15:38:23 MDT --- No, I'm using ext3 for 11.0 (use also ext3 for the working 10.3) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626 User terje@nordland-teknikk.no added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626#c7 Terje J. Hanssen changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|terje@nordland-teknikk.no | --- Comment #7 from Terje J. Hanssen 2008-08-09 15:42:40 MDT --- (In reply to comment #5 from Jeff Mahoney)

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Are you using reiserfs?

No, I'm using ext3 for 11.0 (use also ext3 for the working 10.3) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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9 Sep 9 Sep

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New subject: [Bug 406626] Network freeze on Dell Precision 490 workstation

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626 User terje@nordland-teknikk.no added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626#c8 --- Comment #8 from Terje J. Hanssen 2008-09-09 16:31:15 MDT --- Now I have also tried to run an 11.0 Update installation right over the working 10.3. But the same proglem(s) occured again. During the installation, the update server configuration was unsuccessful (I guess no Internet connection was established). Just after login, I was able a short time to ping to an external IP address and got response. I was also able to ping local IP addresses successful, but no hostnames. Took a look at the the network card setup in YaST. It contained correct local host name, IP address and default gateway IP address. But there were no IPs for DNSs. While entering these IP addresses, the system froze hard again. This happened several times a short time after each cold boot and login. I did look in /etc/resolv.conf, which was emty generated by the Network Manager. What I wonder now is if openSUSE 11 already contains the latest Broadcom tg3 Linux Driver? The latest tg3 driver v. 3.85l date 05/23/08 is available in source at http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/driver-sla.php?driver=570x-Linu... The attached Readme.txt for this driver tells: "This file describes the tg3 Linux driver for the Broadcom NetXtreme 10/100/1000 Mbps PCI/PCI-X/PCI Express Ethernet Network Controllers. The latest driver is in the latest 2.6 Linux kernel. It can also be downloaded from http://www.broadcom.com as a source package, but is generally not necessary to do so if you are using the latest 2.6 upstream kernel from http://www.kernel.org or one of the latest vendor kernels from Red Hat, SuSE, or others." -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 406626] Network freeze on Dell Precision 490 workstation

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626 User terje@nordland-teknikk.no added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626#c9 --- Comment #9 from Terje J. Hanssen 2008-09-09 16:35:06 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=238742) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=238742) Readme: Broadcom tg3 Linux Driver V. 3.85l -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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10 Sep 10 Sep

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New subject: [Bug 406626] Network freeze on Dell Precision 490 workstation

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626 User terje@nordland-teknikk.no added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626#c10 --- Comment #10 from Terje J. Hanssen 2008-09-10 05:33:46 MDT --- Finally, I found a workaround. It was the NetworkManager that effectivelig denied to save the DNS IP addresses. By configuring the YaST network setting with the traditional ifup instead, the DNS info was possible to save and next Internet connection was established ok. Is this a known bug in NetworkManager or should it be reported? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626 User jeffm@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406626#c11 Jeff Mahoney changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |terje@nordland-teknikk.no --- Comment #11 from Jeff Mahoney 2008-10-15 12:08:59 MDT --- When the system "freezes" does the mouse still move? I've seen similar problems with network connectivity and NFS before. If the system is freezing completely, it's likely that you're reporting two separate bugs here. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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