Re: Unable to halt or reboot due to - unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0.20 to become free. Usage count = 1

[Jesper Juhl]

On 01/09/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/09/06, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've just encountered the problem on a different server with an
> > > identical vlan setup. That server is running 2.6.13.4
> >
> > Do you have a simple recipe to reproduce this? Ideally it'd be a
> > script that anyone can execute in a freshly booted system that
> > exhibits the problem.
> >
> Well, the first server I saw this on only had a base install of debian
> stable on it, then I replaced the kernel, configured the vlan
> interface in /etc/network/interfaces typed 'reboot' and it failed -
> and it seems to fail reliably on reboot every time.
Ok, I've done some more testing and it seems, unfortunately, that I
can't trigger the problem reliably. I guess I was just "lucky" with my
first few reboots.
It now seems that uptime and/or amount of data that has flowed over
the vlan interface impacts the probability of hitting the problem.

--
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
Don't top-post  http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html
Plain text mails only, please      http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/