Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: 2.6.15 (fedora kernel) Distribution: Fedora Core 4 Hardware Environment: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ / Gigabit Mother board / 8139too / 3c59x Software Environment: 2.6.16 / 2.6.16.2 / 2.6.16_1.2069_FC4 / Fedora Core 4 fully upgraded. Problem Description: When booting into new kernel, problems are evident. Mouse movement is very slow and jerky (this happens before network subsystem start, so is probably not related to networking); More importantly; no incoming packets are recieved and only a few outgoing ones are generated. Outgoing ARP towards the default gateway is sent, but the response is ignored. More full logs are available in the fedora core bug report which mirrors this. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187662 I will attach the standard bug reporting output as a text file. Steps to reproduce:
Created attachment 7814 [details] This is the standard environment information for a linux bug report This attachment contains the standard bug reporting information listed in the kernel.org bug reporting instructions except that the SCSI proc file doesn't exist on my system. I can't think of any specific interesting things about the system. It's uniprocessor / plain with two hard disks and network cards. It has FC4 with no really interesting changes.
Changing motherboard from a GA-7VRXP to an ASRock K7VT4A Pro (which has changed my eth0 ethernet driver to "via-rhine") has fixed this problem for me. The reason I did that is that all the kernel compiling seems to have burnt out the capacitors on my old mother board. One of them even de-soldered its self!! This means that it will be difficult for me to reproduce the problem again. I can try to get the capacitors replaced if anybody cares.
I'd assue the problem are the capacitors, such problems can result in many strange errors.