From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:36:52 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger Message-ID: <20061129183652.4cebb4cc@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20061129171420.3d45ed78@freekitty> References: <587BB495FD172F43931DE54C0AFD218616F9FF@reset6.ad2.felines.org> <20061129171420.3d45ed78@freekitty> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Bridge] recent crashes? Linux kernel 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5 (Linux Fedora Core 5) List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Jay Libove , bridge@lists.osdl.org On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:14:20 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:29:17 -0500 > "Jay Libove" 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?