• Bug#267077: kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686: e1000 can't unload: usage count=-

    From jlquinn@1:229/2 to All on Fri Aug 20 17:30:13 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.kernel
    From: [email protected]

    Package: kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686
    Version: 2.6.7-2
    Severity: normal


    With an IBM T41p, I ran into this problem. I was trying to get the
    machine to sleep unsuccessfully with:

    echo mem > /sys/power/state

    several times, but the machine was unable to go to sleep (see next bug
    report). Eventually, returning from the attempted sleep hung the e1000
    driver. I attempted to reset the driver by removing and reloading the
    module. On removal, I get slowly repeating messages:

    unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = -256

    Once this happens it can't be stopped. Trying to reboot the machine, it
    cannot get past shutting down interactive processes and still hangs on
    this message. I had to manually poweroff.

    I've seen the same behavior a few times on an IBM T30 probably linked to
    ACPI, but I'm not sure. I no longer have access to the T30 to test,
    though.


    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.1
    APT prefers testing
    APT policy: (500, 'testing')
    Architecture: i386 (i686)
    Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686
    Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

    Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 depends on:
    ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
    ii initrd-tools 0.1.71 tools to create initrd image for p ii module-init-tools 3.1-pre5-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

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