RE: Cisco vpnclient prevents proper shutdown starting with 2.6.2

[Sid Boyce]

Meinhard E. Mayer wrote:
> Until version 2.6.1 the Cisco VPN module (version 4.0.3(B)) cisco_ipsec,
> although "tainted" worked fine with all 2.4.22 and 2.6 kernel versions.
> However, for 2.6.2, although the module compiles and loads, starting the
> vpnclient hangs, and the client cannot be stoped (i.e.
> /etc/init.d/vpnclient_init stop also hangs, and therefore both shutdown
> and reboot of the computer do not complete, and I was forced to "pull
> the plug." Fortunately the journaled file system prevented serious
> damage.
>
> I used the same .config (which I append) for compiling 2.6, 2.6.1, and
> 2.6.2, so I assume that something in your networking drivers must have
> changed to cause this bug.
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions for fixing this problem, since I need
> VPN to access the University library.
I tried using this client with up to 2.6.1-mm5 and ended up with  Dead 
processes for cvpnd and vpnclient, nothing else was affected, went back 
to 2.4.x kernel.
Regards
Sid

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