I started NetworkManagerin combination with kNetworkManager. All went fine until I inserted a cd (can be a coincidence) suddenly the cpu usage of NetworkManager rose to 99%. The process was impossible to kill with 'top' or '-9' '/etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop' didn't work either. I had to reboot in order to regain control over my pc. Reproducible: Didn't try
emerge --info please.
# emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6. 21-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+ Timestamp of tree: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:00:09 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shu tdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php 5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/r evdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-or phans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/di stfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/ftd4linux /usr/portage/local/layman/s unrise /usr/portage/local/layman/portato /usr/portage/local/layman/secondlife /u sr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 arts bash-completion berkdb bit map-fonts bluetooth branding cairo cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt c ups dbus dedicated dga doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif f am ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal ic onv imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jikes joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kerb eros ldap libnotify mad maildir matroska midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer mudfla p musepack mysql ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ofx ogg opena l opengl openmp oss pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf perl php png pppd python qt3 qt3supp ort qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcpd tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd videos vorbis wifi win32codecs wxwindows x86 xface xine xinerama xml xorg xprint xv xv id zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu 10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m m aestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="g libc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev joystick keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES=" bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND= "GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa nv" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGU AS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Can you reproduce this? Does it still happen or did you stop using NetworkManager?