e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

Bernd Schubert
2008-02-15T22:52:45Z

Hello,

I can't login to one of our servers and just got this in an ipmi sol
session:

[18169.209181] e1000: eth0: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang
[18169.209183] Tx Queue <0>
[18169.209184] TDH <e3>
[18169.209185] TDT <e3>
[18169.209186] next_to_use <e3>
[18169.209187] next_to_clean <bd>
[18169.209188] buffer_info[next_to_clean]
[18169.209189] time_stamp <10043e4d2>
[18169.209190] next_to_watch <be>
[18169.209191] jiffies <10043e6f6>
[18169.209192] next_to_watch.status <1>
[18169.256978] e1000: eth2: e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang
[18169.256979] Tx Queue <0>
[18169.256980] TDH <de>
[18169.256982] TDT <de>
[18169.256983] next_to_use <de>
[18169.256984] next_to_clean <bc>
[18169.256985] buffer_info[next_to_clean]
[18169.256986] time_stamp <10043e511>
[18169.256987] next_to_watch <bd>
[18169.256988] jiffies <10043e701>
[18169.256989] next_to_watch.status <1>

This is with 2.6.22.18. Is there any chance to recover the system? For some
reasons I would prefer not to reboot now.

Thanks,
Bernd