Environment
Novell NetWare
Novell Open Enterprise Server (NetWare based)
Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver
BX2.LAN
Novell Open Enterprise Server (NetWare based)
Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver
BX2.LAN
Situation
Server abends with a log similar to the following:
Novell Open Enterprise Server, NetWare 6.5
PVER: 6.50.07
Server FLOYD halted Friday, 9 May 2008 2:29:06.687 am
Abend 1 on P00: Server-5.70.07: Page Fault Processor Exception (Error code 00000000)
Registers:
CS = 0008 DS = 0023 ES = 0023 FS = 0023 GS = 0023 SS = 0010
EAX = 00000001 EBX = 2F608148 ECX = 906F73DC EDX = 00000020
ESI = 92A44EA0 EDI = 00000000 EBP = 906F73DC ESP = 9BEBFB5C
EIP = 915767A8 FLAGS = 00010002
915767A8 8B07 MOV EAX, [EDI]=?
EIP in ETHERTSM.NLM at code start +000007A8h
Access Location: 0x00000000
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Running process: Server 00:38 Process
Thread Owned by NLM: SERVER.NLM
Stack pointer: 9BEBFF80
OS Stack limit: 9BEB8040
Scheduling priority: 67371008
Wait state: 50500F0 Waiting for work
Stack: 898470D1 (LSL.NLM|LSLSendPacket+91)
898478E0 (LSL.NLM|CLSLSendPacket+E)
--00000097 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+97)
--92A44EA0 ?
[snip]
Additional Information:
The CPU encountered a problem executing code in ETHERTSM.NLM. The problem may be in that module or in data passed to that module by a process owned by SERVER.NLM.
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Stack Walk
Current EIP: 915767A8 ETHERTSM.NLM|EtherTSMRegisterHSM+B4
Stack Contents
9BEBFB50 915767A8 ETHERTSM.NLM|EtherTSMRegisterHSM+B4
9BEBFB48 00000000
EIP invalid.
Resolution
This issue is fixed with newer version of the BX2.LAN driver. Look on Broadcom's website for their latest update to this driver.
