Bug 28141

Summary:	netcfg hangs system
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bill Stephens <bill.stephens>
Component:	netcfg	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Bill Stephens 2001-02-17 14:58:46 UTC

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When trying to launch netcfg from gnome, the entire system hangs (freezes, 
locks up, non responsive, no keyboard or mouse possible).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start X (using gnome, haven't tried anything else)
2.launch netcfg
3.completely hung at this point
	

Actual Results:  hard system hang

Expected Results:  netcfg should have launched

I'm testing on a Dell 2400, with Dual 866 SMP configuration.  The adapters 
installed are AMI Megaraid (perc2/dc),IBM PCI token ring adapter 
(olympic), 3com 3c905c-tx, adaptec a7xxx (for tape and cd).  The system is 
configured with 512mb memory.  The problem is easily reproduceable.

Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-02-17 23:31:45 UTC

We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.

Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-02-20 16:47:21 UTC

What kind of video card do you have?  Can you access the affected system over
the network?  I can't reproduce this on my test system.

Comment 3 Bill Stephens 2001-02-20 17:06:17 UTC

My video is an ATI Rage 3d (mach 64 driver).  I'm suspecting 2.4 kernel 
problems either with PCI or Token-Ring on the Dell servers.  The Dell 2400's 
have 2 seperate busses, and when I try to insmod the olympic driver by itself, 
I get an error indicating (I don't have the exact text handy) that it's having 
problems with the PCI interrupt.
-Bill

Comment 4 Bill Stephens 2001-02-20 17:07:24 UTC

My video is an ATI Rage 3d (mach 64 driver).  I'm suspecting 2.4 kernel 
problems either with PCI or Token-Ring on the Dell servers.  The Dell 2400's 
have 2 seperate busses, and when I try to insmod the olympic driver by itself, 
I get an error indicating (I don't have the exact text handy) that it's having 
problems with the PCI interrupt.
-Bill

Comment 5 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-02-21 21:41:02 UTC

Does this only happen when a particular driver is loaded (i.e., the
aforementioned olympic driver)?  Does it continue if you update to the XFree86
and kernel packages from Raw Hide (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/)?

Comment 6 Bill Stephens 2001-02-22 18:35:04 UTC

That seems to have helped netcfg.  It no longer hangs with the new kernel and 
xfree86.  I'm suspecting the kernel updates.  I'm still getting kernel panics 
though, but not as frequently.  I'll track that under my other bug report 
though.  You can close this one out as fixed with the new kernel and xfree86 
from rawhide.

Thanks,

Bill

Comment 7 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-02-22 22:09:38 UTC

Will do.  Thanks!