Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

[Alex Salazar]

On 9/2/06, Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As a workaround, I disabled the APICs (hint.apic.0.disabled),
> > and that ~15 minutes delay at boot up, now was gone. Fine.
> >
> > (BTW, 7-CURRENT has the same problem, but without that huge delay)
>
> Do you have APIC disabled for 7-CURRENT also?

No. I didn't need to. Although the same probe errors also show up
like on 6-STABLE, they do not delay a second the boot process.


> I've seen this on Supermicro EM64T in the past on 7-current, but that
> went away about 3-4 weeks ago. It really seemed to me that this was
> indeed an interrupt related problem.
>

The STABLE and CURRENT snapshots (200608) I am using were
downloaded 2 weeks ago.


On 7-CURRENT, the scenario is not as critical as on 6-STABLE.

On CURRENT, there is only that bunch of mpt_cam_event notifications,
whenever certain disk operations are performed (tarball extracting, i.e.).
No bce(4) watchdog messages, network interface down nor system unstability.

Even though, the system hangs most of times when it is restarted or
shuted down, and I am forced to use the power off button.

/var/run/dmesg.boot
http://bsdero.tripod.com/dmesg.boot.CURRENT.txt

/var/log/messages (with remarks)
http://bsdero.tripod.com/messages.0902.CURRENT.txt

pciconf -lv output
http://bsdero.tripod.com/pciconf.CURRENT.txt


Regards