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Bug 60264 - gentoo-sources driver for RTL8139 (r8169.c) freezes system
Summary: gentoo-sources driver for RTL8139 (r8169.c) freezes system
Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High critical (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers
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: 60266 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2004-08-13 13:17 UTC by norbert kamenicky
Modified: 2004-09-05 16:20 UTC (History)
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Description norbert kamenicky 2004-08-13 13:17:06 UTC 
I noticed random machine freezes during big uploads using scp.
Because scp on localhost worked properly, I made "flood" ping test
from remote machine ... gentoo got freezed in few minutes.

Kernel gentoo-sources-2.4.26-r*
platform P4, x86 stable
RTL8169 onboard, driver compiled as module

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
On remote machine run "flood" ping similar to this:

   ping -f -s1500 -p1234567890 ip-of-rtl8169-iface-on-gentoo

and let it run until gentoo freezes.


Actual Results:  
Gentoo with kernel 2.4.26-r8 and rtl8169 driver freezes in few minutes.

Expected Results:  
Normal ping answer.

google fed with "r8169 freeze" shows a lot of links related
to this problem
Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-13 13:25:54 UTC 
*** Bug 60266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-13 13:31:57 UTC 
Could you please try vanilla-sources and see if you can reproduce the same issue?
Comment 3 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-13 13:32:30 UTC 
Sidenote: 2.4.27 may have a fix for this, so can you see if you get this with 2.4.26 please?
Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-09-05 16:20:40 UTC 
Please test with newer kernel (as requested above) and reopen if the issue still exists.