On Feb 17, 2008 11:39 AM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (resend a third time because previous attempts never reached the lists > due to a bug in my MUA; my apologies to David for spamming his inbox) > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But hey, you can try to prove me wrong. I dare you. > Me too, me too! > > Weird issue this. > About a minute after logging into KDE the system freezes, but only > partially. The keyboard is completely dead in all cases (no console > switching, no SysRq), but some tasks stay running. One time music continued > playing, other times it stopped. One time the desktop clock continued > ticking, other times it stopped. One time I could close a window using the > mouse, but other windows were frozen. > It's not just KDE that's frozen; one time I switched to VT1 before the > freeze happened, but that became unusable too. > Zilch in the logs. > > I've bisected it down to: > commit 69cc64d8d92bf852f933e90c888dfff083bd4fc9 > Author: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [NDISC]: Fix race in generic address resolution > > Confirmed that this is really the culprit by reverting this commit on top > of -rc2, which is now running fine. > > I'm using IPv6 (local network only) together with IPv4, use a bridge (br0) > and have an NFS4 mount active.
I've encountered the same issue last Thursday. Here, I can hang my machine with ping6. I've also bisected it down to the same commit. I've sent some kernel traces which shows how the soft lock up occurs. See thread: "[PATCH][RFC] race in generic address resolution" http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg55375.html Benjamin > > Cheers, > FJP > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
