[driverloader] Re: System Hangs on Shutting down (Partha Bagchi)

[Mark Feit]

Partha Bagchi writes:
  > 
  > Has anyone encountered a problem in shutting down the system?
  > 
  > When I do network restart or ifdown eth1 or dldrstop the system sits 
  > there and I have to Cntr-C out of it. When I try to shutdown, the system 
  > hangs at shutting down eth1.
  > 
  > Any solutions?

I ran into this on a Red Hat 9 system.  The solution is to make sure
the MAC address in /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifcfg-xxx is all
lowercase.

This is really a bug in the RH scripts that handle this, because MAC
addresses don't have any particular case (i.e., DE:AD:BE:EF:12:34 and
de:ad:be:ef:12:34 are equivalent).  Adding to the confusion is that
fact that /sbin/ifconfig shows one and /sbin/ip shows the other.  I've
identified where it's happening and at some point when I have a few
minutes (when's that?) I'll develop a patch and contribute it to
Fedora.


							- Mark
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