Subject: Re: System lockup at "ifconfig vlanX destroy"?
To: Lars-Johan Liman <liman@autonomica.se>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/04/2004 21:56:34
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:04:54AM +0200, Lars-Johan Liman wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm playing with vlans a bit, but a few times I've run into a very
> nasty situation where the entire OS totally freezes (as in "reset
> button is your friend" :-P) when I tell it
> 
>   ifconfig vlanX destroy
> 
> where "X" is the number of the vlan interface I happen to be fiddling
> with. The parenting physical I/F is an fxp0, if that matters ...
> 
> Unfortunately I cannot predictably repeat it. It happens now and then,
> but often enough to be a real pain in the sit-upon.

Are you running X11 ?
I've seen a vlan destroy panic the system on occasion.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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