Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:35:20 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: Unable to halt or reboot due to - unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0.20 to become free. Usage count = 1 |
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On 01/09/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/09/06, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > > Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I've just encountered the problem on a different server with an > > > identical vlan setup. That server is running 2.6.13.4 > > > > Do you have a simple recipe to reproduce this? Ideally it'd be a > > script that anyone can execute in a freshly booted system that > > exhibits the problem. > > > Well, the first server I saw this on only had a base install of debian > stable on it, then I replaced the kernel, configured the vlan > interface in /etc/network/interfaces typed 'reboot' and it failed - > and it seems to fail reliably on reboot every time. > Ok, I've done some more testing and it seems, unfortunately, that I can't trigger the problem reliably. I guess I was just "lucky" with my first few reboots. It now seems that uptime and/or amount of data that has flowed over the vlan interface impacts the probability of hitting the problem.
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