this has happened with both gentoo-dev-sources(2.6.8.1) and development-sources (2.6.8) when via-velocity is compiled in or loaded as a module when trying to get the loopback interface up a segmentation fault occurs and system hangs. this has happened on two entirely different pcs. first pc : Celeron 850 coppermine U2W SCSI drives in soft raid1 128mb ram via chipset second pc : Sempron 3100+ socket 754 ide drives in soft raid1 512mb ram via kt800Pro chipset This happens even if no such nic is present in the system (first pc)or disabled from the bios (second pc) if compiled as a module and not loaded at boot time you may modprobe the via-velocity driver but when trying to ifconfig it you get the same seg fault. If you cannot reproduce the bug i can supply the dump from the screen i get (OOPS etc) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. compile and install kernel 2.6.8 or 2.6.8.1 with via-velocity driver 2. reboot 3. wait for the "bringing lo up" Actual Results: Segmentation fault Expected Results: bring the loopback up as i was writing the above lines i tried Mandrake 10.1 RC1 and voila ! Same problem. So, this *could* be a kernel bug and not something with gentoo. Ah! and another thing. Thank you for creating the best Linux distro i have ever come across !
Seems to be a problem in the kernel since the driver seems to be new. Maybe the patch posted on the lkml helps? http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/235453 Maybe you could also try the -mm tree of the kernel (if you have the nerve), which contains some newer stuff and some fixes which are not yet in the mainline kernel.
This is an upstream problem in the upstream source tree which we can do nothing about - can you please file this bug with the upstream kernel developers at http://bugme.osdl.org who could solve this issue? Thanks!
