12th attempt at posting (previous ones have bounced)


I can induce a crash (total - kernel goes straight into cold reboot) on
my win4lin 686M2 systems by pinging a plip interface (either from the
parent machine or from the laptop on the other end of the link). The
486-laptop is stable though.

A few checks seem to show that the effect is specific to version 3.0.x,
and (apparently) to win4lin-kernels _compiled_ for a 686M2. I've tried
some 2.2.13, 2.2.17 & 2.2.18 kernels. Those which are compiled eg for a
486, or without w4l support are stable when the plip interface is
pinged. And I've reverted to w4l 5.1.0 and that also returns me to a
stable system.

Often the kernel goes down without trace, but occasionally, eg if
pinging from the laptop as the kernel boots, I get the dreaded
'Aiee killing interrupt handler
 kernel panic: attempted to kill the idle task 
in interrupt handler - not syncing'
then silence (and a long reboot to rescue the 10Gb disk!)

Anyone seen anything similar please? (It's a 100% guaranteed bug of
recent arrival - I reckon.)

Bob
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robert w hall
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