Bug#665693: e1000 WARNING and INFO: task kworker blocked for more than ..

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

reassign 665693 src:linux
thanks

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 08:36:52AM +0100, Edward Allcutt wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 3.2.12-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Just updated linux kernel from 3.2.9-1 to 3.2.12-1. On ifup, after a seemingly successful
> DHCP REQUEST+ACK networking completely fell over. The "no IPv6 routers" log line is notable
> since there is working native IPv6 here. The first noticable symptom however was DNS
> requests failing.
> 
> Subsequently, netlink requests seemed to hang: "ip address show" blocked indefinitely. Rebooting
> blocked after the usual "Rebooting the system" message, there were some task hung warnings and
> I forced it to reboot with sysrq.
> 
> I've fallen back to the previous ABI kernel, so the Kernel: line below is wrong. Manually added
> kernel logs since reportbug can't read them as normal user. Obviously missing messages after
> klogd was killed.
> 
> It gets interesting from 360 onwards, I started the reboot before 480.

Does this still occur with the Wheezy kernel or later?

Cheers,
        Moritz