Bug#298490: kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686-smp: network interfaces down => machine needs hard reboot

[Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686-smp
Severity: normal


When gvpe (a vpn daemon using a tun-device under linux) exits (e.g. by
kill -9 or SIGINT, which cases the daemon to simply exit without doing
anything to the tun device it has open) I get these messages in a loop:

   unregister_netdevice: waiting for vpn0 to become free. Usage count = 23

and gvpe doesn't exit (cannot be killed with -9 even). ifconfig -a or ip
link ls both hang and cannot be killed either and the machine hangs when
trying to reboot.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-rc2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)