2.1.99 killed by ifconfig

Oliver Neukum (neukum@fachschaft.org.chemie.uni-muenchen.de)
Sat, 2 May 1998 01:20:14 +0200 (CEST)


Hi,
I must report, that 2.1.99 is killed by
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 up
which is part of my boot skripts.
It works on 2.0.32,2.0.33 and 2.1.89 - 2.1.98
The effect is reproducible 100% (4 out of 4)
Magic Sysreq is irreproducible
3 trials:
1. showed PC then locked hard
2. sync and reboot
3. hard lock
The logs are always clean.

Hardware:
P120, 32MB edo, 2HDs on IDE
no networking hardware
Chipset Intel Triton
extremely broken BIOS

/ on hda2
/usr on md0

kernel 2.1.99 without SMP
compiled with gcc 2.7.2.1
ifconfig 1.22 (1996-05-09)

grep =y <.config
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y
CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA=y
CONFIG_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
CONFIG_MD_STRIPED=y
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_PPP=y
CONFIG_SLIP=y
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_JOYSTICK=y
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SB=y
CONFIG_ADLIB=y
CONFIG_YM3812=y
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y

configuration for 2.1.89 to 2.1.98 was similar (no parport,no rtc)

I would be happy to provide further information.

Oliver Neukum

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