Bug 191119 - netdump hangs if network cables are removed
Summary: netdump hangs if network cables are removed
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: netdump
Version: 4.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Thomas Graf
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Reported: 2006-05-08 23:50 UTC by Rick Stern
Modified: 2014-06-18 08:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-06-13 20:53:29 UTC

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Description Rick Stern 2006-05-08 23:50:25 UTC 
Description of problem:

When netdump is set up, and then the network cables are removed, the system
hangs after a crashes

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


How reproducible:
very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup netdump
2.  Remove network cables
3.  Crash system (sysctl -w kernel.sysrq=1;echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger)
  
Actual results:
The terminal window assocaited with this command seems to scroll for a while,
then hang.  If the network cables are re-inserted later, the system is still hung.

Expected results:
Either do the dump after the cables are re-inserted or just reboot.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Rick Stern 2006-05-10 23:45:21 UTC 
Customer found out that is netconsole was not running that this bug didn't show.
 Seems to indicate a problem there.  Seach showed that fix for bugzilla 127815
(from RH3) did not make it into RH4.  Created bugzilla 191342 to track that.
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