Bug#498141: general network corruption running linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
Version: 2.6.26-3
Severity: normal
I installed linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 on my etch system to try and help vet
it a bit. I immediately had two problems that look network related. The
first was that xterms I opened on another local machine were garbled so
badly that I could not use them. The fonts were all garbled, the prompt
was messed up, etc.
The second issue was that my IMAP connection to a local machine was also
having serious corruption issues. It would show the headers, but when I
went to look at the messages, everything would go blank. (This was in
kmail.) Reverting back to 2.6.22-6~bpo40+2 made everything happy again.
So I realize I'm assuming two things - 1) that the kernel was at fault - it
was the only thing that changed, and 2) that it was the networking that was
wonky, and not something else.
Here is some info about the hardware:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+
~> lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb Host Bridge (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce 250Gb PCI System Management (rev
a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
(rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97
Audio Controller (rev a1)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Parallel ATA Controller
(v2.5) (rev a2)
00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5)
(rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AGP Host to PCI Bridge
(rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev
a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon
9600]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]
(Secondary)
02:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 80)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
~> lsmod
Module Size Used by
radeon 112480 1
drm 76884 2 radeon
binfmt_misc 11592 1
cpufreq_ondemand 8780 1
cpufreq_powersave 2240 0
rfcomm 37272 0
l2cap 23488 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 50404 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 9156 0
parport_pc 34468 0
lp 11428 0
parport 34568 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
autofs4 20996 2
button 8400 0
ac 5636 0
battery 10436 0
ipv6 239908 18
nfs 225644 2
lockd 61448 2 nfs
nfs_acl 3904 1 nfs
sunrpc 159292 4 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl
ext3 122952 1
jbd 56040 1 ext3
mbcache 8772 1 ext3
dm_snapshot 17380 0
dm_mirror 21568 0
dm_mod 52992 2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
cpufreq_stats 5568 0
cpufreq_userspace 4640 0
powernow_k8 15104 1
freq_table 4896 3 cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats,powernow_k8
firewire_sbp2 12676 0
psmouse 36624 0
ide_generic 1600 0 [permanent]
ide_disk 17088 0
snd_intel8x0 32604 2
snd_ac97_codec 93412 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 2752 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 40096 0
snd_mixer_oss 16000 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 73092 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4164 0
snd_seq_oss 29952 0
snd_seq_midi 8608 0
snd_rawmidi 23520 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 7488 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47120 6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 21636 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 8204 5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 48996 14
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
k8temp 6016 0
soundcore 7968 1 snd
i2c_nforce2 6272 0
amd64_agp 12612 1
agpgart 32456 2 drm,amd64_agp
shpchp 31636 0
pci_hotplug 29824 1 shpchp
evdev 9792 3
tsdev 8512 0
snd_page_alloc 10568 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
pcspkr 3584 0
i2c_core 24256 1 i2c_nforce2
rtc 13336 0
xfs 506840 2
ide_cd 37088 0
cdrom 33376 1 ide_cd
generic 5252 0 [permanent]
usbhid 26400 0
hid 25984 1 usbhid
amd74xx 13916 0 [permanent]
ide_core 114756 5 ide_generic,ide_disk,ide_cd,generic,amd74xx
ata_generic 8004 0
skge 39184 0
firewire_ohci 17152 0
firewire_core 39872 2 firewire_sbp2,firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 2560 1 firewire_core
ehci_hcd 31500 0
ohci_hcd 20228 0
usbcore 126856 4 usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
sd_mod 27776 5
thermal 13896 1
processor 31816 2 powernow_k8,thermal
fan 5252 1
sata_nv 19204 4
libata 117104 2 ata_generic,sata_nv
scsi_mod 137676 3 firewire_sbp2,sd_mod,libata
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-4-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch2 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.85i tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
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