Re: ax25 kernel problem sometimes accur

From: Ralf Baechle DO1GRB (yddcdfvo.wuyqmwhvt@gnejsen.se)
Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 03:10:16 EET

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    On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:42:22PM +0000, Stewart Wilkinson wrote:

    > I am aware of several UK stations that are having lockup problems with
    > systems running 2.4.19 kernels (using at least 3 different Linux
    > Distributions). At the moment I know of just one system running 2.4.19
    > kernel that has been up for over 35 days.
    >
    > The systems in question seem to run Ok for anything up to 12-14 days,
    > until they stop. Sometimes they stop with a Kernel Panic (Flashing
    > keyboard lamps), other times (at least in my case today) the system is
    > just non-responsive either to external traffic (pings over LAN etc) or to
    > Keyboard Input.
    >
    > As far as we have determined to date the crashes all follow a pattern
    > where AX25 / NETROM connections start to be refused and sometime
    > there-after the system totally stops functioning.

    As is the 2.4 AX.25 code is totally racy. Basically it only has a chance
    to survive if the user is nice ...

    73 de DO1GRB op Ralf 

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