Re: USB networking problem on Sheevaplug
* David Given <dg@cowlark.com> [2009-07-28 22:11]:
> I've recently been encountering a problem on my Sheevaplug home server.
> It's currently set up as a router, using the built-in ethernet for
> inside and a USB widget for outside. This has been running happily for
> months --- indeed, I went away for five weeks and had no problems.
> However, during the past week the USB networking has twice failed. Stack
> trace enclosed.
Lennert, do you think you can comment on this mail?
David: which kernel is that? 2.6.29 or 2.6.30? If it's 2.6.29, can
you run
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
update-initramfs -u
to upgrade to 2.6.30.
> This *may* be related to running out of memory; the only thing I've done
> to it in the past week is to start running Java on it. OTOH, the machine
> does have 512MB of RAM and a further 1GB of swapfile.
>
> This is kind of a big deal, as it's a server connected to the outside
> world and runs my website and email! So, can anyone suggest:
>
> (a) why it's failing, and whether there's a fix;
>
> (b) where I can get a network watchdog that will automatically reboot
> the box if the networking fails. Because if this happens while I'm out,
> I'm not going to be able to reboot it manually...
>
> Would any more technical information be useful?
>
>
>
> Stack trace (sorry about the bad formatting):
>
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.000000] ------------[ cut here
> ]------------
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.000000] WARNING: at
> /home/tbm/kernel/linux-2.6-2.6.30~rc8/debian/build/source_armel_none/net/sched/sch_generic.c:226
> dev_watchdog+0x150/0x240()
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.010000] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1
> (rtl8150): transmit timed out
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.020000] Modules linked in: xt_state
> ipv6 ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT xt_tcpudp iptable_nat nf_nat
> nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables
> x_tables reiserfs loop gpio_keys mmc_block rtl8150 mvsdio mv643xx_eth
> libphy mmc_core jfs nls_base raid0 md_mod sd_mod crc_t10dif ehci_hcd
> usb_storage usbcore scsi_mod ext3 jbd ext2 mbcache
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.050000] [<c002bcec>]
> (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xd4) from [<c003e664>]
> (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x68)
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.060000] [<c003e664>]
> (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x68) from [<c003e6bc>]
> (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x28/0x38)
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.070000] [<c003e6bc>]
> (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x28/0x38) from [<c021e60c>] (dev_watchdog+0x150/0x240)
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.080000] [<c021e60c>]
> (dev_watchdog+0x150/0x240) from [<c0047878>] (run_timer_softirq+0x170/0x204)
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.090000] [<c0047878>]
> (run_timer_softirq+0x170/0x204) from [<c0043538>] (__do_softirq+0x98/0x160)
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.100000] [<c0043538>]
> (__do_softirq+0x98/0x160) from [<c004381c>] (irq_exit+0x40/0x90)
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.110000] [<c004381c>]
> (irq_exit+0x40/0x90) from [<c0025054>] (_text+0x54/0x6c)
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.120000] [<c0025054>]
> (_text+0x54/0x6c) from [<c00259b4>] (__irq_svc+0x34/0x80)
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.120000] Exception stack(0xc0369f40
> to 0xc0369f88)
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.130000] 9f40: 000bbff6 000003e8
> 00000000 4a6f6023 c036dd28 c036dd28 c0022ee8 c036bde8
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.140000] 9f60: c036dd28 56251311
> c03edc00 00000000 2de5d9ce c0369f88 c0059e54 c002fb9c
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.150000] 9f80: 20000013 ffffffff
>
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.150000] [<c00259b4>]
> (__irq_svc+0x34/0x80) from [<c0059e54>] (do_gettimeofday+0x28/0x34)
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.160000] [<c0059e54>]
> (do_gettimeofday+0x28/0x34) from [<000b76e8>] (0xb76e8)
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.170000] ---[ end trace
> d75f9ad0583752ea ]---
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.170000] net eth1: Tx timeout.
> Jul 28 21:31:31 chur kernel: [215085.180000] usb 1-1.4: eth1: Tx status -104
> Jul 28 21:31:33 chur kernel: [215087.000000] net eth1: Tx timeout.
> Jul 28 21:31:33 chur kernel: [215087.000000] usb 1-1.4: eth1: Tx status -104
> [...repeated every two seconds until reboot...]
>
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