Bug 159796

Summary: Complete freeze in gnome (hard reboot required) after launching dhclient.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chris Fairles <cafairle>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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1st crash.
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2nd crsah
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Description Chris Fairles 2005-06-08 03:34:30 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4

Description of problem:
Problems with a complete freeze. This has happened twice in two days for some
reason. 
Some facts.
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN
Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX Go5700]
(rev a1)

Using ndiswrapper-1.1
Kernel is 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 recompiled with 4KSTACK off. 
nVidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run

Heres the commands I ran before the hang.
modprobe -r ndiswrapper
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig <some options>
dhclient -r
dhclient wlan0

Click outside the xterm window. Frozen. Had to do a hard reboot. Crash.log shows
the /var/log/messages just prior to the hang.

2nd freeze. Very similar circumstances. See Crash2.log for the moments just
before the hang (had initiated dhclient when bam, frozen).

3rd freeze. SWITCHED TO 'NV' DRIVER in xorg.conf. Same thing. See Crash3.txt


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
custom kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3smp with force 4KSTACK off.

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. modprobe ndiswrapper
2. iwconfig <settings>
3. dhclient wlan0
  

Actual Results:  Comeplte freeze. No response from mouse, keyboard. Alt-ctrl-F* unresponsive. Had to hard reboot.

Expected Results:  Should have assigned IP address from router.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Chris Fairles 2005-06-08 03:36:01 UTC
Created attachment 115203 [details]
1st crash.

Comment 2 Chris Fairles 2005-06-08 03:36:55 UTC
Created attachment 115204 [details]
2nd crsah

Comment 3 Chris Fairles 2005-06-08 03:37:30 UTC
Created attachment 115205 [details]
3rd crash

Comment 4 Dave Jones 2005-06-08 05:18:19 UTC
loading binary code that could be doing *anything* into kernel space
(ndiswrapper) is a situation we have no way at all of debugging.