Description of problem: If I use ifdown or neat to deactivate my ethernet card my system locks up. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel - 2.6.5-1.315 system-config-network - 1.3.16 net-tools - 1.60 ifconfig 1.42 (2001-04-13) How reproducible: ifdown eth0 or neat select eth0 and click deactivate Additional info: also, whenever I issue the command su - shutdown -r now or shutdown -h now i get the following kernel panic: reproduced here as closely as possible to what I read from the crashed machine. generic_file_aoi_read do_page_fault sel_write_user pte_alloc_one pte_alloc_map handle_mm_fault get_user_pages str_vm elf_map zero_user_size load_elf_interp load_elf_binary avc_has_perm search_binary_handler [<0216c697>] do_execve+0x187/0x219 [<02104958>] sys_execve+0x2a/0x6f kernel/timer.c:295 spin_lock(kernel/timer.c:023313e0) already locked by kernel/timer.c/392 Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt In interrupt handler - not syncing
what kind of network card is this ? (eg which kernel module)
neat hardware tab: 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset orinoco_pci from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth driver: e100 desc: "Intel Corp.|82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 1031 subVendorId: 1014 subDeviceId: 0209 pciType: 1 and the wireless card: class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: orinoco_pci desc: "Harris Semiconductor|Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset" vendorId: 1260 deviceId: 3873 subVendorId: 1668 subDeviceId: 0406 pciType: 1 My system was originally a redhat 9 machine. I used apt to upgrade it to fc1 and then downloaded the fc2-test2 iso used the installer to upgrade to fc2-test2 and have since switched to yum downloading all the updates todate.
looks like the problem was fixed in the change to 2.6.5-1.319 ifdown doesn't lock up the system and shutdown -r doesn't cause a kernel panic anymore.
hmmmmm ok I'll close it then. If it comes back please reopen..