Bug 174300 - kernel hangs after wlan driver crash
Summary: kernel hangs after wlan driver crash
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
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Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-27 15:46 UTC by Stefan Geuns
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:23 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-11-28 19:53:30 UTC
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Description Stefan Geuns 2005-11-27 15:46:00 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Sometimes the drivers of my wlan card crash (rt2500). But when this happens, the entire system hangs and responds to nothing.
I can't give any output of /var/log/messages since there are no usefull things there related to the crash.

I don't know if this is solvable, but it's highly anoying that whenever some driver doesn't want to work, everything hangs.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.12-1.1398_FC4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Wait untill the wlan driver crashes
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Actual Results:  Kernel hangs

Expected Results:  entry in dmesg that the wlan driver is no longer alive and I should be able to continue working without the need to reboot.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-11-28 19:53:30 UTC 
please take up problems with out of tree drivers with their maintainers.
Comment 2 Stefan Geuns 2005-11-29 14:51:39 UTC 
The problem isn't that the driver crashes, the problem is that the kernel goes
with the driver and crashes too.
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