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  1. Bug #61388
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 61388

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Michael R. Head (burner) wrote :

Actually, while the problem occurs less frequently, it does still happen from time to time. I'm not sure what triggers it, but eventually, windows no longer map in X and sudo hangs indefinitely (for example, I can't do "sudo reboot", because I sudo never asks me for a password).

The concommittent syslog symptom is the following repeated over and over.
Oct 30 02:03:17 localhost kernel: [89695.728193] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Oct 30 02:03:17 localhost kernel: [89695.728204] bcm43xx: Controller RESET (TX timeout) ...
Oct 30 02:03:27 localhost kernel: [89705.728135] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Oct 30 02:03:27 localhost kernel: [89705.728149] bcm43xx: Controller RESET (TX timeout) ...
Oct 30 02:03:32 localhost kernel: [89710.728105] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Oct 30 02:03:32 localhost kernel: [89710.728120] bcm43xx: Controller RESET (TX timeout) ...

I noticed that some time before the driver had problems, I saw this:
Oct 30 01:09:52 localhost kernel: [86490.747214] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Oct 30 01:09:52 localhost kernel: [86490.747226] bcm43xx: Controller RESET (TX timeout) ...
Oct 30 01:09:52 localhost kernel: [86491.265854] bcm43xx: Controller restarted