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>8. Odds and ends</H1
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>8.1. Network hangs</H2
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> The following only affects 2.2 kernels.
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> Note that there is a bug somewhere that makes the netcard
freeze the whole system when shutting down eth0. According to
Martin Espenschied, this is a known issue, and can be
fixed. When I know how, I'll put the information here. Till
then, remember to <EM
>sync</EM
> your system before
shutting down, and you should not miss any
information. Remember my disclaimer in <A
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> An ugly hack to resolve this might just be to
<EM
>NOT</EM
> to shut down eth0 at
shutdown/reboot. This can be done by editing the file
/etc/init.d/network (or similar), and in the stop) case, just
comment away the ifdown command, and add a phoney command,
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> Note that this is a
<EM
>rather ugly</EM
> hack, that won't actually
solve the problem, it just hides it. The network won't go
properly down until you reboot the machine. I really hope that
somebody have a better fix on this later. Thanks to Doc
Shipley for this tip.
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