Linux 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant)
Dell PowerEdge 2950.

Hi peeps,

I ran into an issue when patching oracle9i. Something seemed to mess with my NICs as I lost both and kudzu kept prompting for hardware change on reboot.

The patching I did for oracle I have carried out on other oracle installs without incident so I am not sure if this is even the cause.

Original issue was I noticed the file permissions on /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko had been altered so I changed them back.

After restarting and googling various phrases and tinkering, I could start NIC's by running .

Problem is, no kernel mods are loading upon boot anymore.
I have not done any updates or changes on a kernel level.

In comparison, our other linux servers here display over 850 lines when this command is run.

I have poked around the ini scripts but I do not know what specifically to look for or check.

Can anyone please assist??

Compare /etc/modprobe.conf

-twantrd

Sorry, I realised after post I was missing this.

I checked modprobe.conf, it is the same. I'll post more details after I log back into work and get some data.

I cannot see a difference between the servers after a fair bit of poking around.

modprobe.conf....

alias scsi_hostadapter mptspi
alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptspi
alias scsi_hostadapter3 megaraid_sas
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
alias scsi_hostadapter0 megaraid_mbox
alias eth0 bnx2
alias scsi_hostadapter2 mptscsih
alias eth1 bnx2

I have checked ini startup scripts, nothing stands out. Checked dmesg as well but not really sure what to look for. Everything seems to boot okay, no modules load though. Other servers all list hundreds of modules loaded. (modprobe -l)

I really need help with this. I have a lot to deploy on this server but do not want to proceed with something not right like this.

in /var/log/messages...
FATAL: Module ip_tables not found

...and dmesg for what its worth....

rqstacks, hard=c03d8000 soft=c03b8000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 4147312k/4980736k available (1819k kernel code, 45628k reserved, 740k data, 172k init, 3276448k highmem)
Using HPET for base-timer
Using HPET for gettimeofday
Detected 2660.223 MHz processor.
Using hpet for high-res timesource
Calibrating delay loop... 5275.64 BogoMIPS (lpj=2637824)
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz stepping 0b
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 182.81 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs.
Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=c03d9000 soft=c03b9000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay loop... 5308.41 BogoMIPS (lpj=2654208)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz stepping 0b
Booting processor 2/2 eip 3000
CPU 2 irqstacks, hard=c03da000 soft=c03ba000
Initializing CPU#2
Calibrating delay loop... 5308.41 BogoMIPS (lpj=2654208)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#2.
CPU2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz stepping 0b
Booting processor 3/3 eip 3000
CPU 3 irqstacks, hard=c03db000 soft=c03bb000
Initializing CPU#3
Calibrating delay loop... 5308.41 BogoMIPS (lpj=2654208)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#3.
CPU3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz stepping 0b
Booting processor 4/4 eip 3000
CPU 4 irqstacks, hard=c03dc000 soft=c03bc000
Initializing CPU#4
Calibrating delay loop... 5308.41 BogoMIPS (lpj=2654208)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#4.
CPU4: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz stepping 0b
Booting processor 5/5 eip 3000
CPU 5 irqstacks, hard=c03dd000 soft=c03bd000
Initializing CPU#5
Calibrating delay loop... 5308.41 BogoMIPS (lpj=2654208)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#5.
CPU5: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz stepping 0b
Booting processor 6/6 eip 3000
CPU 6 irqstacks, hard=c03de000 soft=c03be000
Initializing CPU#6
Calibrating delay loop... 5308.41 BogoMIPS (lpj=2654208)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#6.
CPU6: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz stepping 0b
Booting processor 7/7 eip 3000
CPU 7 irqstacks, hard=c03df000 soft=c03bf000
Initializing CPU#7
Calibrating delay loop... 5308.41 BogoMIPS (lpj=2654208)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#7.
CPU7: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz stepping 0b
Total of 8 processors activated (42434.56 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
checking TSC synchronization across 8 CPUs: passed.
Brought up 8 CPUs
zapping low mappings.
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1100k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb1ce, last bus=17
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040816
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX2._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX2.UPST._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX2.UPST.DWN1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX2.UPST.DWN2._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX3._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX3.PE2P._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX4._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX6._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.SBEX._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.COMP._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK00] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK01] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK02] (IRQs 3 4 5 *6 7 10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK03] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK04] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK05] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK06] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK07] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:07:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:07:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:09:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0e.0[A] -> GSI 78 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:0e:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:0f:08.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:11:0d.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
apm: BIOS not found.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1204278757.543:0): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key E07BC3E85BE30CFD
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
ACPI: Processor [CPU2] (supports C1)
ACPI: Processor [CPU3] (supports C1)
ACPI: Processor [CPU4] (supports C1)
ACPI: Processor [CPU5] (supports C1)
ACPI: Processor [CPU6] (supports C1)
ACPI: Processor [CPU7] (supports C1)
ACPI: Processor [CPU8] (supports C1)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Failed to disable AUX port, but continuing anyway... Is this a SiS?
If AUX port is really absent please use the 'i8042.noaux' option.
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR-T10N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide3...
ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide4...
ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 32768 buckets, 512Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 43690)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S4 S5)
ACPI wakeup devices:
PCI0
Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
SCSI subsystem initialized
mptbase: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
Fusion MPT base driver 3.02.83.12
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.02.83.12
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:0f:08.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator,Target}
scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01032700h, Ports=1, MaxQ=255, IRQ=169
Vendor: IBM Model: ULTRIUM-TD3 Rev: 5BG2
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.5 (Release Date: Fri Jan 21 00:01:03 EST 2005)
megaraid: 2.20.4.4 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 00:01:03 EST 2005)
Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.02.83.12
megasas: 00.00.03.09 Fri. Feb. 09 14:36:28 PST 2007
megasas: 0x1028:0x0015:0x1028:0x1f03: bus 2:slot 14:func 0
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0e.0[A] -> GSI 78 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
megasas: FW now in Ready state
scsi1 : LSI Logic SAS based MegaRAID driver
Vendor: DP Model: BACKPLANE Rev: 1.05
Type: Enclosure ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: DELL Model: PERC 5/i Rev: 1.03
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 2924216320 512-byte hdwr sectors (1497199 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 2, id 0, lun 0
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
cdrom: open failed.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
cdrom: open failed.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on dm-1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on dm-2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on dm-4, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 2097144k swap on /dev/VolGroup_ID_28038/LogVol0. Priority:-1 extents:1
Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.4.51b (December 15, 2006)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:09:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem f4000000, IRQ 169, node addr 001d09145ec7
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem f8000000, IRQ 169, node addr 001d09145ec5
MSI INIT SUCCESS
bnx2: eth0: using MSI
bnx2: eth1: using MSI
bnx2: eth1 NIC Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex, receive & transmit flow control ON
bnx2: eth0 NIC Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex, receive & transmit flow control ON

Hi all,

Thanks for looking and thanks twantrd for the reply, I have solution.

My file was missing. (why will probably remain one of the great mysteries!)

I regenerated this file with...
Rebooted, and could access the server remotely. (a symptom of issue was NIC's needed to be loaded manually after reboot, server was blind.)

Thanks to HROAdmin26 of linuxforums.org for the advice!