If got the same messages in regarding to ppp, it looks like ppp is not stable...... does anybody had the same trouble ?? (PS i did a clean install of Fedora Core 2, after this a linuxiant 8k stacks kernel) Jun 14 20:15:06 borderline kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to become free. Usage count = 1 Jun 14 20:15:16 borderline kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to become free. Usage count = 1 Jun 14 20:14:13 borderline pppd[2871]: Terminating on signal 2. Jun 14 20:14:15 borderline last message repeated 8332 times Jun 14 20:14:16 borderline mxstream: Shutting down mxstream connection: succeeded Jun 14 20:14:21 borderline last message repeated 4 times With kind regards Fons van der Beek ----- Original Message ----- From: "sanya G" <slain@xxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 3:40 PM Subject: Kernel error, after shutdowning ppp device > Hi, all. > I've installed FC2 and configured ppp connection similar to my old FC1 > configuration. It's works well, but when i try to shutdown ppp0 (ifdown ppp0), > pppd starts using 100% of cpu and i get the following errors in /var/log/messages: > kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to become free. Usage count = 1 > I can't kill pppd as root with kill -9. > > Maybe it's a kernel-2.6 bug? > (kernels 2.6.5-1.358, 2.6.6-1.427 and 2.6.7-rc3 from kernel.org) > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >