Kernel panic when restarting networking

[Alex Greg]

Hi,


When I restart the networking (service network stop ; service network
start) on two of our servers, the machine kernel panics and dies.


The machines are Dual Intel Xeon EM64T 3.6Ghz with 4 Broadcom NICs (2
onboard, 2 cards) (IBM x346's) running Fedora Core 3 x86_64 - kernel
is 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp.


The output at the console is below:


Code: F2AE488B44240848F7E1448D69FF488378600048
RIP <ffffffff801a3ae0> (remove_proc_entry+63) RSP <00000100BFF27E78>
CR2: 00000000290101ef
<3> debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at
include/linux/rwsem.h:43
in_atomic:(1), irqs_disabled:(0)
call trace: <irq> <ffffffff8012e539> (__might_sleep+171)
<ffffffff80134047) (profile_task_exit+31)
	<ffffffff801355cf> (do_exit+34) <ffffffff8010f8df> (oops_end+38)
	<ffffffff8012003d> (do_page_fault+1222) <ffffffff802c9c6> (igmpv3_newpack+129)
	<ffffffff8010eb8d> (error_exit+0) <ffffffff801a3ae0> (remove_proc_entry+63)
	<ffffffffa0122ee4> (:ipv6:snmp6_unregister_dev+54) <ffffffffa010497d>
(:ipv6:in6_dev_finish_destroy+133)
	<ffffffff802a1ce1> (dft_destroy+124) <ffffffff802a1d37> (dft_run_gc+0)
	<ffffffff802a1d9b> (dst_run_gc+100) <ffffffff8013b6b5> (run_timer_softirq+356)
	<ffffffff80138088> (__do_softirq+88) <ffffffff80138131> (do_softirq+49)
	<ffffffff8010e9f1> (apic_timer_interrupt+133) <EOI>
<ffffffff8010c78c> (mwait_idle+86)
	<ffffffff8010c71c> (cpu_idle+26)
Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!


Can anyone recommend a solution for this problem?


Regards,


-- Alex