d-i fails to bring up network on powerpc

[Colin Watson]

I'm investigating bug 756719, using qemu. My invocation is as follows. oneiric-powerpc-mini.iso is http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/oneiric/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/mini.iso, powerpc-t.img is a blank 10GiB disk created with kvm-img, and /usr/share/openbios/openbios-ppc comes from the openbios-ppc package in Debian unstable.

  qemu-system-ppc -monitor stdio -m 512 -cpu G4 -M mac99 -bios /usr/share/openbios/openbios-ppc -cdrom oneiric-mini-powerpc.iso -hda powerpc-t.img -boot order=d

When d-i tries to bring up the network, I get this in /var/log/syslog (I had to copy-type this, so please excuse errors, but I tried to be as accurate as possible):

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (ne2k-pci): transmit queue 0 timed out
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.39/net/sched/sch_generic.c:256
Modules linked in: usb_storage ne2k_pci 8390
NIP: c049f038 LR: c049f038 CTR: 00000001
REGS: dfff9df0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.39-3-powerpc)
MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR> CR: 24000084 XER: 20000000
TASK = c07b5610 'swapper' THREAD: c07e6000
GPR00: c049f038 dfff9ea0 c07b5610 00000052 0000354b ffffffff dfff9dd6 00020000
GPR08: 0000354a c07c0000 0000004f dfff9ea0 24000042 00000000 fff37f18 fff36162
GPR16: 0030c604 0022e444 c0918d6c c0918b6c c091896c 00000000 00200200 c07e44b4
GPR24: de2b9800 c049edf8 de2b99d8 c049edf8 c09b0000 c07c0000 de2b9800 dfff9ea0
NIP [c049f038] dev_watchdog+0x240/0x288
LR [c049f038] dev_watchdog+0x240/0x288
Call Trace:
[dfff9ea0] [c049f038] dev_watchdog+0x240/0x288 (unreliable)
[dfff9f10] [c005a0e4] call_timer_fn+0x50/0x12c
[dfff9f40] [c005b1e0] run_timer_softirq+0x128/0x23c
[dfff9fa0] [c00523f0] __do_softirq+0xcc/0x1cc
[dfff9ff0] [c0012384] call_do_softirq+0x14/0x24
[c07e7e70] [c0007d40] do_softirq+0x78/0x9c
[c07e7e90] [c0052760] irq_exit+0x84/0xa0
[c07e7ea0] [c000e724] timer_interrupt+0xdc/0x208
[c07e7ec0] [c0018d14] ret_from_except+0x0/0x14
--- Exception: 901 at cpu_idle+0xa4/0x100
    LR = cpu_idle+0xa4/0x100
[c07e7f80] [c000c848] cpu_idle+0x6c/0x100 (unreliable)
[c07e7fb0] [c0004e88] rest_init+0x78/0x90
[c07e7fc0] [c07588d0] start_kernel+0x314/0x32c
[c07e7ff0] [00003df8] 0x3df8
Instruction dump:
4bffff80 389f0008 7fc3f378 90df0048 38a00040 4bfe4f81 80df0048 7fc4f378
7c651b78 3c60c072 3863910c 480d6d69 <0fe00000> 38000001 981c103c 4bffffac
---[ end trace 55c0739ce5da49fe ]---
eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x1, ISR=0x3, t=89.

The "lost interrupt" messages repeat, and eth0 is dead.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The same thing happens on Natty.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

'-net nic,model=e1000 -net user' works, so I have a workaround.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 789054

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