Re: unregister_netdevice: waiting for br0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jay Libove schrieb:
> A Google search finds many instances of this message which I am seeing
> at system shutdown time
> 
>  
> 
>             unregister_netdevice: waiting for br0 to become free. Usage
> count = 1
> 
>  
> 
>  .. but none of the entries I found link it specifically to the bridge,
> nor provide a solution.  I've probably just missed it somewhere, so I
> apologize in advance for asking:
> 
>  
> 
> What do I need to do to properly shutdown a bridge so that it is fully
> de-referenced and my system shutdown can conclude successfully?  At the
> moment, a regular "shutdown -r" command hangs in a loop forever with the
> unregister_netdevice message.  A harder reboot works, but of course is
> not preferable.

Why not simply disable bridge shutdown for the time being? It shouldn't
harm anything.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel
-- 
http://www.hailfinger.org/


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