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

Op za, 21-05-2005 te 12:19 -0400, schreef Jay Libove:
> 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.
> 

Deleting the bridge with brctl commands (delif and delbr) should make it
work. If that isn't satisfactory, try rmmod bridge.

cheers,
Bart




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