[Openswan Users] Openswan lockups when stopping service

[Ken Bantoft]

Try upgrading to 2.1.2rc1 - we fixed some bugs in /proc that the 2.4.25 
kernel introduced.


On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Silvan Calarco wrote:

> Hi.
> I'm running Openswan 2.1.1 on a 2.4.25 linux kernel and I'm having big 
> troubles when stopping the service with its own initscript. 
> Here's the log when I execute "/etc/rc.d/init.d/ipsec stop":
> 
> Apr 15 14:55:56 jimhall pluto[1927]: shutting down
> Apr 15 14:55:56 jimhall pluto[1927]: forgetting secrets
> Apr 15 14:55:56 jimhall pluto[1927]: "jimhall2coltrane": deleting connection
> Apr 15 14:55:56 jimhall pluto[1927]: "jimhall2eva": deleting connection
> Apr 15 14:55:56 jimhall pluto[1927]: shutting down interface ipsec0/eth0 
> 192.168.2.123
> 
> then it hungs...
> 
> By looking at the processes I notice that an "ifconfig" process is hardlocked, 
> I can't kill it, and can't kill any other "ifconfig" process that I execute 
> before. I have to restart the system to make it work again.
> 
> Has anybody encountered the same problem ? 
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Silvan

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