Bug 676196

Summary: total freeze upon connection to wifi
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jonathan <emailjonathananderson-fedora>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, sgruszka
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Fixed In Version: 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Jonathan 2011-02-09 03:25:35 UTC
Description of problem:
when I connect to a specific wifi (my new 802.11n dlink dir-655 in wpa2), the desktop freezes. It doesn't even respond to caps-lock. Nothing in the logs even. Complete freeze. Looking at the network manager graphics all runs well when the lower dot turns green and the upper is grey. When both turn green -> freeze. These kernel versions has been running for a while in my system and never crashed when connecting to another wifi, just for this specific.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.35.10-72.fc14
2.6.35.10-74.fc14

How reproducible:
80% immediate crashes. It has happened that it successfully connected and seemed stable for a while but crashed less than five minutes later, making it 100% if I just wait.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.connect to one specific wifi
2.crash
3.in some cases, wait a few minutes
  
Actual results:
Complete system crash when connecting to a specific wifi.

Expected results:
Successfull connection to wifi without crash, or at least that just the network manager crashed and not the whole system. It would be an improvement not having to hard reset the computer but just restart NM.

Additional info:
I am now running on kernel 2.6.35.9-64.fc14 and it has been stable for 30 minutes. Longer than any of the more recent kernels. Knock on wood.
Sadly, no logs to be attached as the system freezes completely, but let me know if posting any excerpts from before the crash helps. Nothing strange in the boot logs either IMHO.

NetworkManager.x86_64             1:0.8.1-10.git20100831.fc14
Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) on ath9k

Comment 1 Jonathan 2011-02-13 20:21:17 UTC
I have no seen this error since I started running kernel 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 (a few days now, much longer than the system worked ever with the problem version). Something you did probably fixed it. Suggest closing bug.

Comment 2 Stanislaw Gruszka 2011-02-13 20:53:52 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 667459 ***