Gutsy unstable

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:56:12 -0500, Preston Kutzner wrote:

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> Sorry all, my bad with this.
> 
> Anyhow, some people have mentioned similar issues.
> 
> One of the solutions was to turn of IPv6 support in Gutsy.
> 
> From a terminal type: gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases Look for the
> line that reads: "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" Change the "ipv6" portion to
> "off", save and restart.
> 
> Also, try commenting out any IPv6 lines in /etc/hosts.
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Ok, I tried this on my system yesterday and I just had to reboot.  The 
symptoms were not quite the same as mentioned earlier, but I think it is 
the same problem.  I couldn't kill processes so there were no zombies 
created.  One processes running ipw3945 was eating an entire CPU.  I 
couldn't kill it.  I'm not sure what it does, but it had been churning 
along since the crash and had accumulated 600+ minutes of CPU time.  
Networking was completely toast.  I couldn't get Network Manager to 
reconnect to my wireless network.. or for that matter to even detect it.  
When I shutdown the system it didn't make it all the way down.  Network 
manager was complaining about something in going down.  

I should note that I wasn't completely stopped from creating new 
processes.  I tried running totem without any problem. 

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Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>