From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261793AbULOKd5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:33:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262312AbULOKd5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:33:57 -0500 Received: from nuit.ca ([66.11.160.83]:42112 "EHLO smtp.nuit.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261793AbULOKdw (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:33:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:33:50 +0000 From: simon@nuit.ca To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ppp* really buggy Message-ID: <20041215103349.GA9617@nuit.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6" Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-GPG-Key-Server: x-hkp://subkeys.pgp.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-Scan-Signature: smtp.nuit.ca 1CeWTe-0003Lv-Vz d4411d4cebd7ed517c37969313d4c27b Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi, tulip driver is not the only driver i'm having problems with (see "oops in tulip driver..." from a few weeks ago). our net connection is via pppoe, and either the kernel pppoe driver is randomly crashing to the point that i *have* to reboot. yes, it's modular, go figure. or it's the other ppp drivers. seems to be ppp, since the error messages i get from the kernel are pointing that way. i don't have the error output unfortunately, but it is on the list, from my first mention of the tulip driver being busted, i posted the oops output i got. i'll go try to find the relevant message. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D110077095802656&w=3D4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D110082052528028&w=3D4 the first one refers what i'm speaking of a bit. it happens when i'm bringing pppd down with poff, or when the other end of my ppp tunnel drops the connection. here's some more f what i managed to get: sig11 call trace: snmp6_unregistered_dev in6_dev_finish_destroy ip6_dst_destroy dst_destroy dst_ran_gc run_timer_softirq __do_softirq irq_exit timer_interrupt ret_from_interrupt then a message about PANIC: not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! sorry i don't have the various numbers that go with those above functions. is there a patch out there that can at least mitigate the problems i'm seeing? it's making for a very unstable environment to work in.=20 (yes, i'm getting desperate. i'm even thinking of going back to 2.4). eric --=20 "I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It'= s a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grad= e, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience." - Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fa= ll 87 --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iQGVAwUBQcATC2qIeuJxHfCXAQLtOAwAnYXJfEkbtFg3t2oqgX48VPcsnko8iidA airOfkk+6T3sI8wYY8rAOAjtWTKllwKc9N0W7QO5vJnzGQEWh3CAXXfdKRm1A8PX bvGYfnIuPRHE3i21D2XjX5Z1fb/Flnkuj2nd+Td5DTXJVdlzUG/L/e17qiEHF1Uh nTgLSlcHQ8RjnVYMpUm9lIa4BRRh2nrmkVIXyq7siMSy81X2AOGWbPC5aZxyTjnw AXapsfpWQ0GA4L7FxYctq49VjfVho7NKto9DZph1WKrYWKVsAIMwXGgAJDFzZL5N cNpwkcCwUeOYc+LbtP8mmaB5ssG68aq8Ecjvx5f2vnetAOJLtcqajTxjnI9puIsU +hR2n3aiSd8oJq7ZyRMlUQ43/1dHAmi9IoKx2lq4+7y84c3Gr92Tib7Q6fSq5dnK dEZIl8UHQDW5x8h1cfKmfxiJZ/sEic/xrd++My58M57HlrqwqMAg4w/LX4ZJq0A9 1EGMXLTJrlof0wdBgBC0D795XWYWyxZf =2f3B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6--