Core 170 on DL320 G6 - reboot does not start up

Running ipfire on an HP ProLiant DL320 G6. no issues up to and including Core 169. Pakfire to Core 170 no reported issues until reboot - didn’t start up. Tried clean install of Core 169, no issues. Pakfire to Core 170, reboot failed. Tried clean install of Core 170 and the installation fails with a kernel panic/NMI. Clean install of Core 159, no issues. Profile follows…

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Hi,

thank you for raising this, and apologies for the inconvenience.

Since we are not aware of Core Update 170 causing general issues on HP ProLiant servers, could you provide us with the log messages displayed on startup after upgrading?

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller

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We saw the same thing on Dell R420 and R620 PowerEdge servers. Finally traced it down to a missing driver for the H310 RAID card. The Dell H310 card drivers are apparently not in Core 170 but the H710 drivers are. We replaced the H310 cards with H710 cards in all of the servers which couldn’t boot and the problem magically went away. It may be a missing driver issue in your case as well.

Best regards,
Fred.

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Sorry - pulled the server. It’s on the floor of my basement - I’ll try to run it up later. Here’s the failure screen booting from the Core 170 install media.

Hi,

thank you for reporting back and the - literal - screenshot.

Since Core Update 169 worked on that machine, and Core Update 170 does not, my naive approach would be to search in the kernel changelogs between 5.15.50 and 5.15.59 for any changes related to NMI handling. Doing so, this patch sticks out, merged in Linux 5.15.54.

For upcoming Core Update 171, we currently plan to go for Linux 5.15.71. In Linux 5.15.63, this patch is included, sounding vaguely to me like it would address the issue you are experiencing.

However, this is not an educated opinion at all. Perhaps @arne_f can help - much appreciated. :slight_smile:

@donbrill - I currently anticipate a testing version of Core Update 171 to be available later this week. It would be great if you could (mentally) prepare yourself for giving it a try on that machine, so we know whether Linux 5.15.71 solves the issue. Thank you very much in advance.

@fkienker - Working through the kernel changelogs, I did not found any changes obviously related to H310 (should that read “H3100”, by the way?) RAID cards. Just to ensure I looked for the right thing: What driver was in use for these cards in Core Update 169? Was it megaraid_sas? Could you provide me with the Fireinfo profile of that machine?

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller

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Yes, it was the megaraid_sas driver.

Here is some background information for the Dell PERC H310:

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/poweredge-rc-h310/docs

Don’t feel bad, you are not the first to have issues with drivers for the various Dell cards. We went through the same thing when RedHat released version 8:

it just points out to me that I will have to do much more of my own testing since we are likely using hardware that is probably only used by a handful of IPFire users. It’s been a win for us since we have been able to repurpose highly reliable hardware which would have probably been sent to the recycler otherwise.

Best regards,
Fred

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Installed core 166, set pakfire to “Testing” and tried to go to 171. No errors in the pakfire log. Restart resulted in kernel panic and it goes into a reboot cycle…

Really don’t know if this will do anything.
But you could try to turn IOMMU OFF.
The following kernel-related changes have been made in addition:

On x86_64, Intel DMA Remapping Devices (better known as IOMMU) are enabled by default during boot, if available.

Right, with core update 170 blog.ipfire.org - IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 170 released

The following kernel-related changes have been made in addition:

On x86_64, Intel DMA Remapping Devices (better known as IOMMU) are enabled by default during boot, if available.
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You will need to find out the hardware component that causes that issue. The hardware ID is given: 00:1e:0.

I checked the BIOS version. W07 seems to be the latest, but I wonder about your bios date. Yours is 2013, but HPE says 2018: HPE Support Center

You should check your BIOS for Updates first. Looks like you run is very old BIOS version: HPE Support Center

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Updated BIOS to 2018, core update 170 still fails to boot.
Trying to boot off of 170 install media goes into kernel panic.

Clean install of 166; pakfire “Testing” to 171. No errors until restart.
Tried to capture initial failure - scrolls by quickly.


You will need to download (all) the log files to look for the problem. Also as I’ve mentioned before you should figure out the hardware component with the listed id. Best way you install a working version (like core 169) and look for that id with its hardware description.

Actually I’m still thinking it’s relatetd to the BIOS. You may have set some settings to prevent DMA attacks in the BIOS that prevents the kernel to use DMA.

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At least on Rx20 hardware, this issue continues in Core 171. Testing with Dell R420, R620, and R720 systems with the Dell H310 RAID controller shows that Core 170 and 171 will install and configure but will not survive the first reboot. The same systems with Dell H710 RAID controllers work as expected. I hope this post saves someone from having to figure this out the hard way.

Best regards,
Fred

Same issue with Core 172. Tried pulling HP RAID controller and running just the Intel SATA controller. No change. Attempted looking through all BIOS settings and found nothing related to DMA. Here’s the config running prior to reboot:
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