8.1. Network hangs
The following only affects 2.2 kernels.
Note that there is a bug somewhere that makes the netcard
freeze the whole system when shutting down eth0. According to
Martin Espenschied, this is a known issue, and can be
fixed. When I know how, I'll put the information here. Till
then, remember to sync your system before
shutting down, and you should not miss any
information. Remember my disclaimer in Section 1.2 though.
An ugly hack to resolve this might just be to
NOT to shut down eth0 at
shutdown/reboot. This can be done by editing the file
/etc/init.d/network (or similar), and in the stop) case, just
comment away the ifdown command, and add a phoney command,
like this:
action "Shutting down interface $i" echo
does_nothing # ./ifdown $i boot |
Note that this is a
rather ugly hack, that won't actually
solve the problem, it just hides it. The network won't go
properly down until you reboot the machine. I really hope that
somebody have a better fix on this later. Thanks to Doc
Shipley for this tip.