NetworkManager crashes system on Thinkpad T41 (?)

[Peter Langfelder]

Hello,

when I'm connected to the wired network and try to disable networking
in NM, it produces a hard system crash (desktop and everything else
stops, only way to move forward is the power button). This with the
newest updates as of today. Anyone noticed this before?

I looked at the system logs and found nothing suspicious, but maybe
I'm not looking carefully enough.

Thanks,

Peter

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 13:32 -0700, Peter Langfelder wrote:
>  Hello,
>  
>  when I'm connected to the wired network and try to disable networking
>  in NM, it produces a hard system crash (desktop and everything else
>  stops, only way to move forward is the power button). This with the
>  newest updates as of today. Anyone noticed this before?
>  
>  I looked at the system logs and found nothing suspicious, but maybe
>  I'm not looking carefully enough.
>  Thanks,
>  
>  Peter
>   
I just tried this by unclicking Enable Networking in NM-applet and no
crash occurred.
Is that what you did?

I am using: NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.11.svn4022.fc9.i386
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[Peter Langfelder]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; wrote:
> >
>  I just tried this by unclicking Enable Networking in NM-applet and no
>  crash occurred.
>  Is that what you did?
>  
Yes, that is correct. The crash only occurs if the cable is connected
and the ethernet (wired) connection is active - if the cable is
unplugged, nothing bad happens.

Peter

[Peter Langfelder]

> > I just tried this by unclicking Enable Networking in NM-applet
> and no
> > crash occurred.
> > Is that what you did?
> >
>
>  Yes, that is correct. The crash only occurs if the cable is connected
>  and the ethernet (wired) connection is active - if the cable is
>  unplugged, nothing bad happens.
>
>  Peter
>  
To follow up: the problem actually doesn't seem to be in
NetworkManager: even when NM is turned off, running a simple ifconfig
down crashes the system.

Peter