Problems with em0 failing to initialize on stable?

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at freebsd.org
Thu Apr 17 11:20:35 UTC 2008


On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 06:32:32PM +0900, gnn at freebsd.org wrote:
> I am running 7-STABLE with machines that are net booted.  On occasion,
> that is not with any level of predictability, this happens:
> 
> em0: Hardware Initialization Failed
> em0: Unable to initialize the hardware
> 
> which of course stops the machine in its tracks.  A normal dmesg is
> also included.
> 
> Any steps I should take to help debug this?

George, can you provide the following?

* Motherboard type and model (a URL to the board would be good)
* kenv | grep smbios
* pciconf -lv

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