Bug#698628: firmware-realtek: rtl8168e-3.fw conflict with fglrx
Package: firmware-realtek
Version: 0.28+squeeze1
Severity: important
Hi,
I ran into the conflict between the RTL8111e chip and
fglrx version 1:12-3-3~bpo60+1 causing the system to freeze when halting.
In my case the system freezes some steps after completing file system
unmounting. It loads the firmware file rtl8168e-3.fw.
However, I experienced freezes before file system unmounting. I may have been
experimenting with firmware-realtek version 0.35~bpo60+1 at the time. If that
is correct this bug may have the potential for data loss and therefore be more
severe and be relevant for wheezy/testing.
I found 2 workarounds:
1.) I simply don't use package firmware-realtek. It doesn't seem to have any
effect on network performance.
2.) I manually ´rmmod r8169´ before halting the system.
While 1.) works for me 2.) may point to a more general solution: There
could be a script in /etc/rc0.d that detects a loaded r8169 module und
rmmod it. Since the standard Debian kernels are modular that should work
in most cases. A warning message while installing firmware-realtek or
relevant fglrx-packages and in README files could cover those installing
custom kernels. I did no tests on a custom kernel with a compiled in
r8169.
Please note that (while troubleshooting) I tried removing only the fglrx
module. It may have moved the point of freeze to after FS unmounting (see
above) but didn't solve the problem. This and the fact that my solution
deals with the r8169 module/firmware are the reasons I am submitting this
bug report against firmware-realtek instead of the fglrx or kernel packages.
Please feel free to reassign this bug to a more appropriate package/severity.
Regards
Jens
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.6
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (199, 'testing'), (198, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
firmware-realtek depends on no packages.
firmware-realtek recommends no packages.
Versions of packages firmware-realtek suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.99~bpo60+1 tools for generating an initramfs
ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-am 2.6.32-46 Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
ii linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo 3.2.35-2~bpo60+1 Linux 3.2 for 64-bit PCs
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