This bug should be a top priority because people will suffer from it as soon as they reboot their 14.04 LTS with an Intel Gigabit NIC and the "current" Utopic kernel (3.16.0-48-generic).
I had the same problem with HP ProLiant DL380e Gen8 which an Intel I350 Gigabit NIC (Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 366i Adapter) It was hard to get a shell with 30-50% packets drop and igb driver resetting ALL NICs... "blind-typing" on the shell and wait 1-2 minutes to get the output... of dmesg ;-) I updated the kernel of 14.04 LTS from Utopic to Vivid and everything is working again. Workaround is: screen -S kernel apt-get -y purge linux-{headers,image,image-extra}-3.16.0-48-generic apt-get -y install linux-image-generic-lts-vivid linux-headers-generic-lts-vivid reboot Output of dmesg: igb 0000:02:00.1 em2: igb: em2 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX igb 0000:02:00.1: Detected Tx Unit Hang Tx Queue <3> TDH <0> TDT <0> next_to_use <4> next_to_clean <0> buffer_info[next_to_clean] time_stamp <100039540> next_to_watch <ffff880230b0e030> jiffies <1000397b6> desc.status <0> igb 0000:02:00.1 em2: Reset adapter igb 0000:02:00.2 em3: Reset adapter igb 0000:02:00.0 em1: Reset adapter igb 0000:02:00.0 em1: igb: em1 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX igb 0000:02:00.1 em2: igb: em2 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX igb 0000:02:00.1: Detected Tx Unit Hang -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-lts-utopic in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1492146 Title: igb Detected Tx Unit Hang Status in linux-lts-utopic package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hello! Have a: >lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty with kenel 3.16.0-46-generic. Today i do dist-upgrade and kernel was upgraded to 3.16.0-48-generic version. After reboot i've got this: Sep 4 09:02:52 mail kernel: [ 310.616324] igb 0000:02:00.0 em1: Reset adapter Sep 4 09:02:52 mail kernel: [ 310.831157] igb 0000:02:00.1 em2: Reset adapter Sep 4 09:02:56 mail kernel: [ 315.154686] igb 0000:02:00.0 em1: igb: em1 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX Sep 4 09:02:56 mail kernel: [ 315.202651] igb 0000:02:00.1 em2: igb: em2 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX Sep 4 09:03:02 mail kernel: [ 321.608099] igb 0000:02:00.0: Detected Tx Unit Hang Sep 4 09:03:02 mail kernel: [ 321.608099] Tx Queue <6> Sep 4 09:03:02 mail kernel: [ 321.608099] TDH <23> Sep 4 09:03:02 mail kernel: [ 321.608099] TDT <23> Sep 4 09:03:02 mail kernel: [ 321.608099] next_to_use <25> Sep 4 09:03:02 mail kernel: [ 321.608099] next_to_clean <23> Sep 4 09:03:02 mail kernel: [ 321.608099] buffer_info[next_to_clean] Sep 4 09:03:02 mail kernel: [ 321.608099] time_stamp <1000012af> Sep 4 09:03:02 mail kernel: [ 321.608099] next_to_watch <ffff880272571240> Sep 4 09:03:02 mail kernel: [ 321.608099] jiffies <100001531> Sep 4 09:03:02 mail kernel: [ 321.608099] desc.status <120200> Sep 4 09:03:04 mail kernel: [ 323.607349] igb 0000:02:00.0: Detected Tx Unit Hang Sep 4 09:03:04 mail kernel: [ 323.607349] Tx Queue <6> Sep 4 09:03:04 mail kernel: [ 323.607349] TDH <23> Sep 4 09:03:04 mail kernel: [ 323.607349] TDT <23> Sep 4 09:03:04 mail kernel: [ 323.607349] next_to_use <25> Sep 4 09:03:04 mail kernel: [ 323.607349] next_to_clean <23> Sep 4 09:03:04 mail kernel: [ 323.607349] buffer_info[next_to_clean] Sep 4 09:03:04 mail kernel: [ 323.607349] time_stamp <1000012af> Sep 4 09:03:04 mail kernel: [ 323.607349] next_to_watch <ffff880272571240> Sep 4 09:03:04 mail kernel: [ 323.607349] jiffies <100001725> Sep 4 09:03:04 mail kernel: [ 323.607349] desc.status <120200> Sep 4 09:03:06 mail kernel: [ 325.606602] igb 0000:02:00.0: Detected Tx Unit Hang Sep 4 09:03:06 mail kernel: [ 325.606602] Tx Queue <6> Sep 4 09:03:06 mail kernel: [ 325.606602] TDH <23> Sep 4 09:03:06 mail kernel: [ 325.606602] TDT <23> Sep 4 09:03:06 mail kernel: [ 325.606602] next_to_use <25> Sep 4 09:03:06 mail kernel: [ 325.606602] next_to_clean <23> Sep 4 09:03:06 mail kernel: [ 325.606602] buffer_info[next_to_clean] Sep 4 09:03:06 mail kernel: [ 325.606602] time_stamp <1000012af> Sep 4 09:03:06 mail kernel: [ 325.606602] next_to_watch <ffff880272571240> Sep 4 09:03:06 mail kernel: [ 325.606602] jiffies <100001919> Sep 4 09:03:06 mail kernel: [ 325.606602] desc.status <120200> All network connections droped after that. System still unusable. Only after boot with old linux-image-3.16.0-46-generic my production mail server can work. It's a critical bug for me, can anybody help me? ethtool -i em1 driver: igb version: 5.2.13-k firmware-version: 1.61, 0x80000cd5, 1.949.0 bus-info: 0000:02:00.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: yes supports-eeprom-access: yes supports-register-dump: yes supports-priv-flags: no To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-utopic/+bug/1492146/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp