Kernel error, after shutdowning ppp device

[Fons van der Beek]

If got the same messages in regarding to ppp, it looks like ppp is not
stable......
does anybody had the same trouble ??

(PS i did a clean install of Fedora Core 2, after this a linuxiant 8k stacks
kernel)
Jun 14 20:15:06 borderline kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to
become free. Usage count = 1
Jun 14 20:15:16 borderline kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to
become free. Usage count = 1
Jun 14 20:14:13 borderline pppd[2871]: Terminating on signal 2.
Jun 14 20:14:15 borderline last message repeated 8332 times
Jun 14 20:14:16 borderline mxstream: Shutting down mxstream connection:
succeeded
Jun 14 20:14:21 borderline last message repeated 4 times

With kind regards
Fons van der Beek


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sanya G" <slain at bk.ru>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 3:40 PM
Subject: Kernel error, after shutdowning ppp device


> Hi, all.
> I've installed FC2 and configured ppp connection similar to my old FC1
> configuration. It's works well, but when i try to shutdown ppp0 (ifdown
ppp0),
> pppd starts using 100% of cpu and i get the following errors in
/var/log/messages:
> kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to become free. Usage count
= 1
> I can't kill pppd as root with kill -9.
>
> Maybe it's a kernel-2.6 bug?
> (kernels 2.6.5-1.358, 2.6.6-1.427 and 2.6.7-rc3 from kernel.org)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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