Bug 120439

Summary: (NET?)network operation (e.g. yum update) causes machine hardfreeze.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pankaj Deshpande <pankajad>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
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Description Pankaj Deshpande 2004-04-08 20:00:50 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; 
Q312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Description of problem:
Install machine
IBM netvista 
Pentium 4, Intel Ether express card, video card Nvidia.
Steps.
Install FC2 Test (1 or 2 does not matter).
open command terminal
su
run yum update.

Somewhere in the header file download step, the machine becomes 
unresponsive. meaning.
a. Screen freezes
b. Mouse/Keyboard stop working
c. Machine does not respond to external Ping requests.
Only way to reboot is by removing the power chord.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.4<fedora specific> or 2.6.5 both

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Install FC2 Test (1 or 2 does not matter).
open command terminal
su
run yum update.
    

Actual Results:  Hard Freeze of the machine

Expected Results:  Should not freeze

Additional info:

Comment 1 Kalev Kaasiku 2004-04-30 08:02:44 UTC
I had same problem twice with yum and after that my filesystem
collapsed as I needed to make hard switch off of my computer. 
I could notice that problem occurred at same place, while downloading
openoffice update package.

Fedora 2 test 3
kernel-2.6.5-1.327.i686
System: EPIA M10000N 

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2004-05-03 12:38:31 UTC
*** Bug 120441 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2004-06-15 00:23:30 UTC
did this get fixed in the final release ?


Comment 4 Dave Jones 2004-12-07 06:22:10 UTC
no response in 6 months - closing.

Comment 5 bhala 2005-06-15 02:37:06 UTC
ARe yiu the same pankaj Deshpande studied in TKIET warana ?
mail me at bhaljosh 
(In reply to comment #0)
> From Bugzilla Helper:
> User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; 
> Q312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
> Description of problem:
> Install machine
> IBM netvista 
> Pentium 4, Intel Ether express card, video card Nvidia.
> Steps.
> Install FC2 Test (1 or 2 does not matter).
> open command terminal
> su
> run yum update.
> Somewhere in the header file download step, the machine becomes 
> unresponsive. meaning.
> a. Screen freezes
> b. Mouse/Keyboard stop working
> c. Machine does not respond to external Ping requests.
> Only way to reboot is by removing the power chord.
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> 2.6.4<fedora specific> or 2.6.5 both
> How reproducible:
> Sometimes
> Steps to Reproduce:
> Install FC2 Test (1 or 2 does not matter).
> open command terminal
> su
> run yum update.
>     
> Actual Results:  Hard Freeze of the machine
> Expected Results:  Should not freeze
> Additional info: