From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle DO1GRB Subject: Re: ax25 kernel problem sometimes accur Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:10:16 +0100 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021207021016.A15120@linux-mips.org> References: <19399@9A0TCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from g0lgs@gb7lgs.co.uk on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:42:22PM +0000 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stewart Wilkinson Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:42:22PM +0000, Stewart Wilkinson wrote: > I am aware of several UK stations that are having lockup problems with > systems running 2.4.19 kernels (using at least 3 different Linux > Distributions). At the moment I know of just one system running 2.4.19 > kernel that has been up for over 35 days. > > The systems in question seem to run Ok for anything up to 12-14 days, > until they stop. Sometimes they stop with a Kernel Panic (Flashing > keyboard lamps), other times (at least in my case today) the system is > just non-responsive either to external traffic (pings over LAN etc) or to > Keyboard Input. > > As far as we have determined to date the crashes all follow a pattern > where AX25 / NETROM connections start to be refused and sometime > there-after the system totally stops functioning. As is the 2.4 AX.25 code is totally racy. Basically it only has a chance to survive if the user is nice ... 73 de DO1GRB op Ralf -- Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21