Hi MT,

I'm getting issues with CHR panicing upon boot - new router, fresh out of the box, no config. I initially observed it on 6.42.4, and also have the same issue with latest 6.43rc42.

Configuration:

* Installed from OVA
* VMware ESXi 6.5
* 128M ram
* 1 CPU
* 128M HDD
* Added 9 additional NIC's (10 in total). All VMXNET3
* Blank (default out of the box) Mikrotik config

Immediately after boot (soon as login prompt displayed), I get the error as per attached screenshot followed by panic and reboot.

do_IRQ: 0.xxx No irq handler for vector (irq -1)


From testing, the panic stops when either:

* NIC drivers are changed to E1000; or
* Number of connected NIC's is reduced to 2 (all 10 still configured in VMware, but 8 are disconnected)

NOTE this is running on VMware ESXi 6.5, not vmware workstation. The workstation screenshot is just for viewing the console output.

Thanks
Richard

Hello,

Same here ! I confirme that the number of NICs impact the behaviour !

Best Regards,
Sébastien W.

This is a bug in ESXi 6.5. It should be fixed by upgrading to 6.5 U1.

Hi petern,

any reference?

We are running VMware ESXi, 6.0.0

thanks.

Hmm, not sure about 6.0

On the VMware knowledge base: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2151480
Found via https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linux-vi ... -yong-lim/

Thanks petern !