[UPDATED]Network Locking whole system up

masterkoppa · 2010-07-09 15:58:03

Lattely I have been having alot off lock up problems. I have finally norrowed it down to a network issue.

After a certain amount of time(random) the network will just shutdown... when this happens I can't run sudo (but can su into root) or ifconfig or anything network related. Whats worse, the whole system can't even properly shutdown or reboot, a force restart is required(The system complains about /home being busy uppon shutdown). There could be two culprits (to my knowledge) wicd or the network management programs(ifconfig, iwconfig).

Im using Archlinux 32-bit

Also any specific log that I should post to help shed some light on this issue?

EDIT: I new information regarding my problem check out the my last post on page one

Last edited by masterkoppa (2010-07-10 00:52:33)

lagagnon · 2010-07-09 16:48:42

Do you have any disk space problems by any chance? Show us the output of "df -h"....I'm grasping at straws here...

masterkoppa · 2010-07-09 16:50:11

here you go:

rootfs                9.7G  6.9G  2.4G  75% /
udev                   10M  180K  9.9M   2% /dev
/dev/disk/by-uuid/e1328da9-1648-44e1-b998-019b01edeea2
                      9.7G  6.9G  2.4G  75% /
none                  1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1              99M   15M   80M  15% /boot
/dev/sdb4             448G  106G  320G  25% /home
/dev/sda2             149G  146G  3.6G  98% /media/disk
/dev/sda1             100M   37M   64M  37% /media/System Reserved

masterkoppa · 2010-07-09 16:50:49

Th /media/disk partition is my windows partition. I hardly ever use it.

Any other place of significant info I can search and post??

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masterkoppa · 2010-07-09 18:18:17

After having the system crash 2 more times I have come to the conclution that it has to be a network problem... My only concern is that how is it that a single program can make my system so unusable. Could I be infected by malware here... hell im taking a big step here by saying this but there is no other reason why im even able to shutdown my system without a force shutdown.

Im really clueless of the reasons behind this problem.

schuay · 2010-07-09 18:40:45

You haven't mentioned which network drivers / hardware you are using.

masterkoppa · 2010-07-09 18:41:59

Well im on a wifi network. the cars is a liknsys somthing cant remember. The driver works out of the box with the kernel(unlike windows...)
How can I get the specific info for the network driver in use?

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schuay · 2010-07-09 19:09:09

If it's a usb device,

lsusb

else

lspci.

And you're using the driver from the kernel package, not some other package? I'm asking because I get the same symptoms (sudo blocks, ifconfig blocks, wlan card freezes until I replug it) when using a driver from the AUR instead of the kernel staging driver.

masterkoppa · 2010-07-09 19:12:28

Yeah im using the default one. I even made my arch install over it.
Here's the network section of lspci:

06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
07:0a.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)

Im using the wireless interface only.

Also on a cuirious note, this happens alot more frequently when im hitting localhost alot (web development). Don't know if it has to do with this.

Last edited by masterkoppa (2010-07-09 19:12:50)

schuay · 2010-07-09 19:14:58

I'd check /var/log/messages for any suspicious lines when the lockup occurs.

Other than that, I'm afraid I won't be able to help Good luck.

masterkoppa · 2010-07-09 19:16:38

Ok any specific messages I should be on the lookout. Ill be on the lookup for disk writes(since it lock up the normal shutdown/reboot), but anything else I should be looking for?

schuay · 2010-07-09 19:19:53

Anything that looks rt / ralink / wireless related.

masterkoppa · 2010-07-09 19:20:47

Ok thanks for your help. Ill post back with the log when it crashes again.

masterkoppa · 2010-07-10 00:51:32

|NEW INFO|

After beign away from the PC for a while and having it crash again here is the error that keeps plaging the kernel.log

phy0 -> rt2500pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter state 1 (-16).

It is repeated more than a coulple million times(not kidding).

Does anyone know what this could mean??

schuay · 2010-07-10 10:35:32

Usually googling the error message is a good idea

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/584298
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/539794
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13362

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