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I have a HP DL360p G8 and I have updated all firwamres such as Bios, iLo and .. to the latest version but problem is when I open Virtual Console i can work with first connection and when I close that session and reopen it later I see this error: pic

and I can not work with virtual console in second time or future and I should reboot the server, any idea what is the problem? Thank you.

djdomi
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Hit Enter in the console window to awaken the cursor. This should be very easy to test.

ewwhite
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Interrupt remapping does this on the G8 HP Servers (also on Debian, multiple reports on Proxmox forums) after kernel 5.4, making virtual console unusable. You can see this by booting a CentOS 7 LiveCD, which should work without any problems for long periods of time.

Try to disable remapping by pressing 'e' on grub to edit your kernel and adding 'intremap=off' or 'nointremap' at the end of your boot options. If that fixes your problem, add it permanently by using grubby, if not, try also setting intel_iommu off and booting with both options disabled, people have had success with that.

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To complete schris's answer, RHEL (and derivatives RockyLinux, AlmaLinux) 8.4+ (with kernel 4.18.0-240+, according to https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=18223, integrating some 5.x iommu patches) are also affected.

Instead of completely disabling interrupt remapping at all, for me disabling interrupt remapping source-id checking with intremap=nosid was enough (documentation: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html).

To make this change permanent, add this argument to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub and regenerate the grub config grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg.

Also, some of the exchanges mentioned and resources I found:

Thoses links also mentions the following solutions (none working for me on RockyLinux 8.5 installer):

  • disabling hpwdt module (modprobe.blacklist=hpwdt rd.driver.blacklist=hpwdt)
  • disabling iommu completely (intel_iommu=off)
  • settings intremap=no_x2apic_optout
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