As of about a week or so ago, ifdown died on me. This is a particular problem when S31networking is run in rc6.d and the machine "hangs" and forces me to do a hard reboot. (Didn't have SysRq support in the kernel until today.) I decided to investigate, and running ifdown -av shows the culprit to be "pump -i eth0 -k". Looking through the man page, this should kill pump for interface eth0. Simple enough. Unfortunately, running it produces no output. Actually running it does nothing but sit there. If I just do it from a console I can hit Ctrl-C and get back to "normal". But, obviously, this SHOULD work. Running ifconfig eth0 down works just fine btw. I'm running Sid (last update a couple of weeks ago, before this png3 fiasco started) with pump version 0.8.11-7 (as reported by dpkg -s pump, as pump appears to be missing a -v option). Any suggestions? -Alex
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