Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 42371
linuxconf hangs on exit or in network config after upg to kernel 2.4.4 - also gets broken pipe
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:26 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Description of problem: After installing RH7.1 standard, selecting "Everything" from the package menu, upgrading to the newest updates on RH's page, and installing 2.4.4 kernel, linuxconf will lock when entering the network config section, or when exiting. I let it sit there once for 5 minutes, and nothing happened. I can hit CTRL-C and it will return me to a shell prompt, but if I try to run linuxconf again it tells me broken pipe. The only way to run it again is to reboot, but it will lock if I run it again. (this is the console version, I haven't tried this in the GUI yet) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Red Hat 7.1 2.Upgrade Red Hat with the updates on their web page 3.Upgrade the kernel to 2.4.4 4.Run linuxconf Actual Results: Locks up in network section or when exiting linuxconf. Pressing CTRL-C returns you to a shell prompt Running linuxconf again issues a broken pipe Only way to run linuxconf again is to reboot. Expected Results: It to work without locking up. =) Additional info: Red Hat Linux 7.1 Std installed. Custom selection, "everything" is installed from the package menu. I've set this up on two totally different machines (one dual P3-866 on a VIA board, and one P4-1.4GHz on an Intel based board). Different nics also. The VIA based one had 2 3Com 905B-TXMNs, while the P4 had a Linksys LNE100TX This only happens after upgrading to 2.4.4 kernel. If I install all of the updates off of Red Hat's page and use the stock kernel, everything is happy, but after I upg to 2.4.4 is when it locks. I haven't tried recompiling the stock source tree for the kernel.
Have also had similar problems under 2.4.4 Is not a motherboard/processor/RAM issue since have recently gone from a VIA Apollo Pro with a celeron 500 + 128Mb SDRAM to an unknown 462 SIS with a Duron 800 + 256 Mb SDRAM, and have also had the same problem. Occurs when I try to edit mout point attributes or just run linuxconf --text, and have to reboot to be able to re-run linuxconf without the broken pipe message. Would rank this as fairly severe since I can't change any settings via linuxconf without the program locking up - settings are not saved.
Upgraded kernel to 2.4.5 and problem vanished. Maybe it's a kernel module thingy, but linuxconf now works fine with the --text option - haven't tried the gnome extensions though.
Closing because we don't ship linuxconf anymore
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.