Since upgrading a CentOS 6.4 with a SuperMicro X8SIE-F/X9SCL board with Intel 82574L NIC to 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 and rebooting, I have been having consistent NIC failures where the NIC shuts down permanently until a soft reboot is performed.
Type the following commands to get more info about error
# cat /var/log/messages | grep eth1 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1 (e1000e): transmit queue 0 timed out kernel: e1000e 0000:02:00.0: eth1: Reset adapter unexpectedly kernel: e1000e 0000:02:00.0: eth1: Timesync Tx Control register not set as expected kernel: e1000e 0000:02:00.0: eth1: Timesync Tx Control register not set as expected kernel: e1000e 0000:02:00.0: eth1: Timesync Tx Control register not set as expected kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
# uname -a Linux svr.lifelinux.com 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03:15:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# ethtool -i eth0 driver: e1000e version: 2.3.2-k firmware-version: 0.13-4 bus-info: 0000:00:19.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: yes supports-eeprom-access: yes supports-register-dump: yes supports-priv-flags: no
# dmidecode --type baseboard
SMBIOS 2.7 present.
Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: Supermicro
Product Name: X9SCL/X9SCM
Version: 1.11A
Serial Number: ZM2BS41603
Asset Tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
Features:
Board is a hosting board
Board is replaceable
Location In Chassis: To be filled by O.E.M.
Chassis Handle: 0x0003
Type: Motherboard
Contained Object Handles: 0
I found the following conversations on the net, exactly the same situation:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625776 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/17/48 http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-September/118027.html http://sourceforge.net/p/e1000/bugs/358/
A quick step to fix this problem
Step 1. Login SSH as root
Step 2. Add pcie_aspm=off kernel parameters to grub config
# cd /boot/grub # vi grub.conf
Find and add “pcie_aspm=off” at the end of the kernel parameters
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_host10588-lv_root nomodeset rd_NO_LUKS rd_MD_UUID=083ae648:88342690:2c5c8edb:4af053ee rd_LVM_LV=vg_host10588/lv_root SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=auto rd_MD_UUID=8263fd2d:c008be86:08ead055:2b929ecf rd_LVM_LV=vg_host10588/lv_swap KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rhgb quiet pcie_aspm=off
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64.img
Step 3. Save and reboot
# shutdown -r now