Re: Having Problems with 1.2 Beta 15

From: Dancer <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:08:04 +1000

2.1.78 is the only version I have knowledge of.
Two bugs that we can see:

1) ip aliasing can cause a null-pointer dereference in the kernel. As
you can imagine, things go very wrong after that. Reboot to fix.

2) The kernel sometimes (harder to reproduce) fails to notice a process
terminate, and thinks that it is _still_ bound to a port, and listening.
Nothing can bind to the port in future, without a reboot.

Bill Wichers wrote:
>
> Could you elaborate a bit on the nature of this kernel bug? It sounds to
> me like it's something that would be good to know about before upgrading
> to the new kernel.
>
> -Bill
>
> On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Dancer wrote:
>
> > Are you using linux 2.1.xx? If so, you've tickled a kernel bug. (We have
> > the same problem on a server). Let me know. It's bitten us on the ass
> > three times now, in a total of three months.
> >
> > D
> [snip]

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Received on Thu Mar 12 1998 - 16:16:46 MST

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