[ale] Server rebooting

[collin at collinp.com (Collin Pruitt)]

My thought is that the NIC driver is causing the kernel to panic, crash 
over and cause a reboot loop. I had a system do that to me a while back 
- I downgraded the kernel version and it worked fine afterwards, but I'm 
not sure that's an option on a production server that requires tight 
security because downgrading would re-introduce any security flaws that 
were fixed in the problematic version.

On 3/14/2012 3:45 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I have an interesting problem.
>
> Today I had a server reboot constantly.  Luckily I have headless remote
> access and remote power control.  Server is 30 miles away and I'm
> working on it.
>
> It would reboot after 'Starting udev'.  After telling it to run sh as
> init I've determined that whenever I load the e1000 nic driver for the
> two interfaces it reboots.  I've blacklisted them, but have no network.
> I thought this was good, but it rebooted.  I've set acpi=off and it
> seems stable now.
>
> At this point I have tared, compressed and bas64 converted stuff I want
> here so that I can setup a virtual machine.  I have converted console to
> 115200 and I will cat the base64 to the tty and capture to disk here.
> I'll convert that back to binary.
>
> Even with acpi off I can not load the e1000 drivers.  One option is to
> drive down there and install a USB adapter until a new system can be
> purchased.  I'm trying to avoid a trip.
>
> Server fine for years now behaving crazy.  Any ideas?
>
> Chris

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