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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Jay Libove <libove@felines.org>, bridge@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] recent crashes? Linux kernel 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5 (Linux Fedora Core 5)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:36:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061129183652.4cebb4cc@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061129171420.3d45ed78@freekitty>

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:14:20 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:29:17 -0500
> "Jay Libove" <libove@felines.org> wrote:
> 
> > Recently, possibly since the most recent one or two kernel upgrades in
> > Linux Fedora Core 5, my system has been crashing with a kernel panic.
> > The panic prevents anything useful from being written to any log files,
> > but on the crash trace left on the screen each time I always see
> > something which looks like it is in the bridge code.
> > 
> 
> If it is a server, please capture the console log during the panic output,
> then developers can analyze it.
> 
> Ways of doing that are (in order of usefulness):
> 
> 1. Serial console - most reliable
> 2. Camera picture with digital camera.  Problem is screen resolution limits
>    the amount of info. Also not easy to get a good picture
> 3. Netconsole. Problem is that for networking bugs, the panic output
>    may never make it out.
> 

It's dying not in the bridge itself but in the netfilter hooks.
What netfilter's are you running, and are you doing VLAN's?
What hardware is being used?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-30  2:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-30  0:29 [Bridge] recent crashes? Linux kernel 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5 (Linux Fedora Core 5) Jay Libove
2006-11-30  1:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-30  2:36   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-11-30  2:43     ` Jay Libove
2006-11-30 13:55       ` Andy Gospodarek
     [not found] <mailman.1.1164916801.6856.bridge@lists.osdl.org>
2006-12-01 22:10 ` Jay Libove

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