Public bug reported: I have an Asus P5B motherboard that has an integrated realtek gigabit network card:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8168 (rev 01) This is handled by the r1000 driver. On boot there's sometimes a kernel panic when this driver is in use. I've tried to blacklist it and confirmed that it stops happening. I made the computer reboot continuously for several hours and the panic only happens if the r1000 driver has been loaded. This is using a Core 2 Duo so it's an SMP system. I guess something in the initialization of the card isn't SMP safe and is causing some kind of race condition. ** Affects: linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Kernel panic with r1000 network card https://launchpad.net/bugs/73319 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs