Bug#267077: kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686: e1000 can't unload: usage count=-256
Package: kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686
Version: 2.6.7-2
Severity: normal
With an IBM T41p, I ran into this problem. I was trying to get the
machine to sleep unsuccessfully with:
echo mem > /sys/power/state
several times, but the machine was unable to go to sleep (see next bug
report). Eventually, returning from the attempted sleep hung the e1000
driver. I attempted to reset the driver by removing and reloading the
module. On removal, I get slowly repeating messages:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = -256
Once this happens it can't be stopped. Trying to reboot the machine, it
cannot get past shutting down interactive processes and still hangs on
this message. I had to manually poweroff.
I've seen the same behavior a few times on an IBM T30 probably linked to
ACPI, but I'm not sure. I no longer have access to the T30 to test,
though.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.71 tools to create initrd image for p
ii module-init-tools 3.1-pre5-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
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