Re: Baypac and kernel crashes

From: Jeroen Vreeken (ezaotgo@ipaper.com)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 09:02:37 EEST

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    On 2002.04.23 06:04:32 +0200 James Cutler wrote:
    > We're having some problems using a BayPac 9600 with Linux 2.4.17.
    >
    > On one machine it works just fine until we start X. As soon as we
    > start X, the machine will crash as soon as we send an AX.25 packet
    > (we were testing with "beacon"). The only way to recover from the
    > crash is to power cycle or press the reset button. This is
    > repeatable. We beacon, we work, we start X, we beacon, we crash.
    > It does output the packet before it crashes.
    >
    > On a second machine that doesn't (can't) run X, we've noticed a
    > similar crash. It's a small embedded 486 (the Prometheus). After
    > several beacons, from 5-20, it will crash in the same hard manner.
    > Only a power cycle will fix it.
    >
    > Has anyone else seen similar behavior? Any ideas?

    Every 2.4.x kernel up to 2.4.18 has this problem, it should be fixed now...
    It was a problem with ax25 not using sock_orphan()

    Jeroen

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