[Openswan Users] Openswan lockups when stopping service

Peter Baumann nospam at linuxnet.ch
Thu Apr 15 17:47:20 CEST 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
>
>  
>
Hi Silvan

I have the exactly same problem here with my redhat fedora core 1 
installation.
See my messages in the userlist.

Peter


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