From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1 Description of problem: On Dell Inspiron 600m running FC4test1 with a Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet, if for any reason the network cable is unplugged, the system hangs. The mouse and keyboard do nothing and I'm forced to do a hard reset. I'm not entirely sure if this is a network management bug, but it seemed closest. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.611-1.1185_FC4 (also on the previous FC4test1 kernel) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Plug in network cable 2. Activate eth0 interface 3. Unplug network cable while eth0 still active Actual Results: Mouse and keyboard become unresponsive. No choice but to hit the power button. Expected Results: System handle the error gracefully (i.e. not hang) Additional info:
I have a similar problem on RHEL4. I upgraded to the beta packages as the standard were more problematic. Now the wireless connects fine but plugging in or removing the wired connection cause a system hang requiring a hard reset. NetworkManager-gnome-0.3.4-1.2.0.EL4 NetworkManager-0.3.4-1.2.0.EL4 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL Dell Inspiron 8600/IPW2200 with the latest drivers. I also have a broadcom but not a gigabit I think.
Perhaps I spoke to soon or it's intermitant. It seems to be working fine today.
Isn't this really a kernel bug? A userspace program shouldn't be able to hang the whole system anyway (if NM was able to do that that would be another kernellevel bug) - but a faulty kernel driver. Could you please attach an lspci+lsof output, if this bug is still ocurring (i see the bug report is a bit old), and possibly move it to component kernel. If its gone, please tell so, so this bug may be closed.
Thank you for the bug report. However, Fedora Project no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem against Fedora Legacy component