From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265835AbUBGVUR (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:20:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265838AbUBGVUR (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:20:17 -0500 Received: from smtp-out7.blueyonder.co.uk ([195.188.213.10]:51606 "EHLO smtp-out7.blueyonder.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265835AbUBGVUO (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:20:14 -0500 Message-ID: <4025568D.5070800@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 21:20:13 +0000 From: Sid Boyce User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Cisco vpnclient prevents proper shutdown starting with 2.6.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2004 21:20:13.0041 (UTC) FILETIME=[2C5EA610:01C3EDC0] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.