Find the source of the kernel lockups > kernel 2.4.4

[Holger Brueckner]

> > The kernel may have problem but the network drivers are most suspicious.
> > As I believe a user-space app (ppp, pppoe 3.0) should not trigger a
> > kernel panic, right? But what the heck, I am going back to ppp 2.3.x
> > anyway. This problem does not exist with kernel 2.2.19
> >
>
> Hi,
> Although I have the same problem with 2.4.5 and 2.4.6, there is no need to
go back
> to 2.2.19: 2.4.3 works fine (at least for me).

hi since a lot of people seem to have similar problems we should somehow
join to find
out the problem. since i'm not a kernel hacker i won't be very helpfull in
digging
through the sources, but i'm sure willing to provide a lot of tracing
information if you
tell me what you'd like to have.

ok first steps:

1) find out what problems everybody has, and which setup they're using. fill
in your
   setup here:

    Holger: asus/celeron 633, on board 3c905tornado, 4 port dlink dec
chipset
                kernel pppoe, pppd 2.4.0, ip source routing, masquerading on
ppp
                connected via german telekom t-dsl. netfilter with
conntracking
                symptom: unreproducable random lockups. only hard resets
work.

                asus motherboard, pentium 200mmx, intel eepro100, teles 16/0
isdn card
                ipppd (unknown version). netfilter with conntracking
                symptom: unreproducable random lockups. only hard resets
work.
                                mostly on low load after high load. (freeing
memory bug ??)

2) find out what has changed from 2.4.3 (which seems to work finde for most
of us)
    to 2.4.4 and above

3) find a solution :)


cya,

Holger