There's life in the old dog yet - HP Integrity RX2600 EFI Unexpected TRAP
A couple of months ago I installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a dedicated hard drive of my HP Integrity RX2600 servers. Because the installation programm doesn't support the native Management Processor console I had to connect a screen, keyboard and mouse to the device. The installation worked like a charm and after a hour the host rebooted.
Unfortunately the system didn't want to boot anymore since the installation. A rare and funny accident - evil to him who evil thinks (if [ "$os" <> "HP-UX" ]; then crash; fi;).
EFI didn't want to start-up anymore - it just crashed with a Unexpected TRAP:
1...
21 0 0x000207 0x00000000000E003D CPU0 starting EFI
30 0 0x0002B9 0x00000000000000AF EFI POST code
40 0 0x0002B9 0x00000000000000F2 EFI POST code
50 0 0x0002B9 0x00000000000000F2 EFI POST code
60 0 0x0002B9 0x00000000000000F2 EFI POST code
70 0 0x0002B9 0x00000000000000F2 EFI POST code
80 0 0x0002B9 0x00000000000000F2 EFI POST code
90 0 0x0002B9 0x00000000000000F2 EFI POST code
100 0 0x0002B9 0x0000000000000001 EFI POST code
110 0 0x0002B9 0x0000000000000002 EFI POST code
120 0 0x0002B9 0x0000000000000003 EFI POST code
130 0 0x0002B9 0x0000000000000004 EFI POST code
140 0 0x0002B9 0x0000000000000004 EFI POST code
157 0 0x00006B 0x000000000000001E unexpected trap
167 0 0x000066 0x000000000000001E trap taken, number in ext PE
177 0 0x00003C 0x0000000000005A00 trap taken, offset in ext PE
Researching the internet didn't helped much - I only found hints for faulty hardware and old firmware revisions. In this case the firmware was up-to-date - beside that firmware updates are impossible without a working EFI shell:
1[rx2600-mgmt] MP:CM> sysrev
2
3SYSREV
4
5Current firmware revisions
6
7 MP FW : E.03.30
8 BMC FW : 01.53
9 EFI FW : 01.22
In the system log I found the following entries among others:
1MP:SL (+,-,<CR>,D, F, L, J, H, K, T, A, U, ? for Help, Q or Ctrl-B to Quit) >
2
3Log Entry 560: 17 Sep 2013 09:22:33
4Alert Level 5: Critical
5Keyword: Type-02 0f7000 1011712
6System firmware error
7Logged by: Redundant w/ an E0 code;
8Sensor: System Firmware Progress
9Data2: PRV State: 0x3F
100xC152381F59020950 FF3F4070000F0300
11
12Log Entry 559: 17 Sep 2013 09:22:33
13Alert Level 7: Fatal
14Keyword: BOOT_TRAP_TAKEN
15Trap taken
16Logged by: System Firmware 0
17Data: Implementation dependent data field
180xF680006600E00930 000000000000001E
19
20Log Entry 558: 17 Sep 2013 09:22:32
21Alert Level 5: Critical
22Keyword: Type-02 0f7000 1011712
23System firmware error
24Logged by: Redundant w/ an E0 code;
25Sensor: System Firmware Progress
26Data2: PRV State: 0x3F
270xC152381F58020920 FF3F4070000F0300
28
29Log Entry 557: 17 Sep 2013 09:22:32
30Alert Level 7: Fatal
31Keyword: BOOT_UNEXPECTED_TRAP_POST_REDIR_TABLE
32Unexpected trap
33Logged by: System Firmware 0
34Data: Implementation dependent data field
350xF680006B00E00900 000000000000001E
After a couple of desperate reset attempts I crawled under my table and discovered that I forgot to disconnect the USB mouse and keyboard after the installation.
And this was the cause of failure: disconnecting the USB mouse and keyboard really solved the problem - EFI is working fine again:
1EFI version 1.10 [14.61]
2EFI64 Running on Intel(R) Itanium Processor Family
3EFI 1.10 IPF zx6000/rx2600/zx2000 1.22 [Thu Mar 11 14:22:35 2004] - HP
40 0 0x0002B9 0x0000000000000013 EFI POST code
I'd never thought that a connected USB mouse/keyboard can cause the whole EFI firmware to stop working..