Bug#277934: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1

["Mykola A. Nickishov" <mn@mn.com.ua>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
Version: 2.6.8-4
Severity: normal

Sometimes I get repeating message in /var/log/syslog:

kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage
count = 1

Once this happens it can't be stopped. I had to manually poweroff.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=uk_UA.UTF-8

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  fileutils                     5.0.91-2   The GNU file management utilities 
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.70     tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-pre6-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

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