[OmniOS-discuss] ipadm hangs on interface creation

[Dan McDonald]

> On Dec 10, 2014, at 4:16 AM, Stephan Budach <stephan.budach at JVM.DE> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have run into a situation, where ipadm hangs upon trying to create a new interface on my ixgbe adaptors. ipadm create-if ixgbe[0|1|2] didn't return and either got killed eventually by the system or by kill -9, which I issued against that process. I just tried to create another if on the on-board NIC igb1, which still works without issues.

What does "pstack `pgrep ipadm`" say when they hang?  And what's your exact incantation?  And "killed by the system", what exactly do you mean?  Did ipadm(1M) time out?

> What could cause ipadm to hang this way and is there a way to get ipadm working again on the ixgbe adaptors, preferreably without having to boot the OmniOS server, since it is serving a NFS export from the remaining functioning ixgbe3 port to my Oracle VM servers.

I'll need more information before I can help you.

Dan