Yesterday everything was fine. Last night I applied the latest updates
which logwatch says consisted of:
--------------------- yum Begin ------------------------
Packages Updated:
shadow-utils.i386 2:4.0.17-13.fc6
autofs.i386 1:5.0.1-0.rc3.31
xorg-x11-drv-savage.i386 2.1.2-3.fc6
postgresql-libs.i386 8.1.9-1.fc6
xorg-x11-server-Xorg.i386 1.1.1-47.9.fc6
htmlview.noarch 4.0.0-3.fc6
This morning I couldn't unlock xscreensaver and X wouldn't restart after
I killed it so I ended up rebooting. Now I'm seeing my ethernet
connection drop:
Jun 8 17:23:13 bend kernel: tg3: tg3_abort_hw timed out for eth1,
TX_MODE_ENABLE will not clear MAC_TX_MODE=ffffffff
Jun 8 17:23:13 bend kernel: tg3: eth1: Link is down.
at random. Even stranger is, if I keep a ping running, the interface
stays up or at least stays up longer.
Has anyone seen anything like this before or have some idea what's
causing it? A Google search for "tg3_abort_hw timed out" returned some
interesting old stuff but nothing current. The system has all FC6
updates applied and has been stable until today. I can regress to the
previous kernel (2.6.20-1.2948) or I pulled down the 2.6.21.4 kernel
from kernel.org. I'll be trying those shortly. The NIC is a:
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C996B-T 1000Base-T
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 88100000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+
Queue=0/3 Enable
Thanks,
Dave
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