bnx2 firmware missing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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OEM Priority Project |
Fix Released
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High
|
Chris Van Hoof | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Andy Whitcroft | ||
Oneiric |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Andy Whitcroft | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Andy Whitcroft | ||
udev (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Andy Whitcroft | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Andy Whitcroft | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Andy Whitcroft |
Bug Description
SRU justification:
udev in Ubuntu 11.10 has regressed support for certain hardware configurations, resulting in firmware failing to be loaded at boot time due to a race condition when shutting down udev in the initramfs. This causes network interfaces to fail to come up in a usable state on systems previously supported, and also causes long boot-time delays on these same systems.
Regression potential:
The nature of the fix introduces the possibility that some systems that are not affected by this bug will have their boot slowed down as a result of udev being forced to process more events before it's able to exit. However, since only events with a timeout requirement will actually be dispatched for processing, the impact here should be minimal.
Test case:
1. boot oneiric on a system such as a Dell PowerEdge 2950 which has two NICs that use the bnx2 driver and require the bnx2-mips-
2. observe that the boot has a 60-second delay and that there is an error in dmesg that the firmware fails to load for one of the NICs
3. install the udev package from oneiric-proposed
4. reboot 6 times to confirm that the system now boots up with no delay and that there is no error in dmesg even after multiple reboots
Installing the latest Beta 1 of Ubuntu 11.10 (downloaded iso on 09-06-2011) fails after the first reboot with this error:
bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-
udevd[107]: '/sbin/modprobe -bv pci:v000014E4d0
Earlier stable versions of Ubuntu Server (11.04) work fine on this machine.
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summary: |
- Ubuntu 11.10 Beta1 fails to install on Dell PowerEdge 2950 + bnx2 firmware missing |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: kernel-key |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Medium → High |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
assignee: | nobody → Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Precise): | |
assignee: | nobody → Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
assignee: | Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) → nobody |
status: | In Progress → Invalid |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Precise): | |
assignee: | Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) → nobody |
status: | In Progress → Invalid |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Kernel Team (canonical-kernel-team) |
Changed in udev (Ubuntu Precise): | |
assignee: | nobody → Andy Whitcroft (apw) |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
assignee: | nobody → Chris Van Hoof (vanhoof) |
importance: | Undecided → High |
tags: | added: kernel-da-key |
Changed in udev (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | Invalid → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in udev (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
assignee: | Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) → Andy Whitcroft (apw) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Precise): | |
assignee: | nobody → Andy Whitcroft (apw) |
importance: | High → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
assignee: | Canonical Kernel Team (canonical-kernel-team) → Andy Whitcroft (apw) |
importance: | High → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | removed: kernel-da-key kernel-key |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
status: | In Progress → Invalid |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
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