Bug 500214
Summary: | Kernel hang in rt61pci | ||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Terry Griffin <griffint> | ||||
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | John W. Linville <linville> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | low | ||||||
Version: | 5.3 | CC: | ajb, dzickus | ||||
Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
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Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Last Closed: | 2009-06-11 17:14:00 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Terry Griffin
2009-05-11 17:26:06 UTC
Created attachment 343483 [details]
Strace of 'ifdown wlan0' showing hang in ioctl() call.
On a hunch, could you try the test kernels here? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499999#c6 Do they solve the problem w/ rt61pci? Please try these instead: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel5/ Reading #499999 it certainly looks like the same problem. Unfortunately I was unable to verify this with the test kernels. Both the bz499999test and jwltest.87 test kernels fail to boot on my machine. They hang right after the Red Hat nash start message. That sounds like an initrd problem. You might try installing the rpm again, or running mkinitrd manually...? No luck, but the post-nash hang was not quite what it seemed. I could see occasional blinks of the disk-activity light after the Red Hat nash start message so I decided to wait. Roughly five minutes later the boot process continued, but very slowly. It got as far as starting cpuspeed, but after that nothing. I let it sit for an hour then I gave up. This was with a fresh install of the jwltest.87 kernel and manually created initrd. Whatever that was, I doubt if it was caused by any jwltest patches. :-) I have a jwltest.88 now, based on a later RHEL5 kernel. Perhaps you could give that a try? Ahh, much better. Kernel jwltest.88 boots and I'm able to take the wireless interface up and down repeatedly without hanging the kernel. Cool...5.4 should fix things for you... :-) |