On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Gerard Parat wrote: > Hello, > > I found what was going wrong on my system. That's when I send a kill > -TERM to kissattach. Then a Kernel Panic occur, and worst, corrupt the > filesystem since swap cannot be sync due to the idle task (at shutdown > time). I have a workaround with double sync just before reboot but there > is some e2fsck cleaning at boot time. > > [...] > > However, every is working fine ... before shutdown ;-) Hello Gerard, this is a known problem which exists with kissattach and spattach as well. The kernel crashes as long as an AX.25 connection is open over which a IP connection is running. If the IP connection is open but the AX.25 connection is closed due to a idle timeout, the kernel will not crash. However, it will crash if the IP connection is closed but the AX.25 connection over which the IP conenction is running is still open. Note the kernel does not crash if the AX.25 connection is shut down by an idle timeout, so it might be a suitable workaround for you if you set /proc/sys/net/ax25/<netdevice>/idle_timeout to a small value. I've heard there is also a patch available; however, this patch fixes the kernel crash problem but causes a kernel memory leak. 73 de Andreas
