Hi Philipp I have built a new kernel version that solves this problem. Can you try this one out?
You can download it from: http://download.openvz.org/kernel/debian/test/linux-image-2.6.26-2-openvz-686_2.6.26-19.1_i386.deb Best regards, // Ola On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 07:50:21PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 > Version: 2.6.26-13 > > With the following snippet in /etc/network/interfaces I get a backtrace in > the kernel, although it works on another machine with the same image (also > same architecture): > > auto sit0 > iface sit0 inet6 v4tunnel > address 2002:4e2e:6774::1 > netmask 16 > gateway ::192.88.99.1 > endpoint 192.88.99.1 > local 78.46.103.116 > up ip link set mtu 1480 dev sit1 > > The failure is visible in userland as follows: > > tanaris:~# ifup sit0 > ioctl: No such device > Failed to bring up sit0. > > The backtrace: > > [87792.025658] kobject_add_internal failed for sit0 with -EEXIST, don't try > to register things with the same name in the same directory. > [87792.025670] Pid: 16220, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 #1 > [87792.025677] > [87792.025678] Call Trace: > [87792.025698] [<ffffffff8030f33d>] kobject_add_internal+0x13f/0x17e > [87792.027044] [<ffffffff8030f77a>] kobject_add+0x74/0x7c > [87792.027053] [<ffffffff803f55fb>] __devinet_sysctl_register+0xde/0x114 > [87792.027067] [<ffffffff8029b410>] cache_grow+0x1cc/0x262 > [87792.027077] [<ffffffff8030f194>] kobject_get+0x12/0x17 > [87792.027084] [<ffffffff8037730d>] get_device+0x17/0x1f > [87792.027092] [<ffffffff8037792e>] device_add+0x9b/0x53f > [87792.027100] [<ffffffff8030ef86>] kobject_init_internal+0x12/0x2c > [87792.027111] [<ffffffff803b1015>] register_netdevice+0x282/0x358 > [87792.027119] [<ffffffff803b1124>] register_netdev+0x39/0x46 > [87792.027128] [<ffffffffa0432309>] :sit:sit_init_net+0xc5/0xe6 > [87792.027138] [<ffffffff803adad9>] register_pernet_operations+0x39/0xc5 > [87792.027148] [<ffffffff803ade14>] register_pernet_gen_device+0x57/0x95 > [87792.027158] [<ffffffffa011004c>] :sit:sit_init+0x4c/0x67 > [87792.027166] [<ffffffff8025da65>] sys_init_module+0x190e/0x1aa4 > [87792.028519] [<ffffffff803b0d93>] register_netdevice+0x0/0x358 > [87792.028545] [<ffffffff8020bffa>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x8a/0x8f > [87792.028558] > > The following, slightly different snippet also fails for the same reason: > > iface sixxs inet6 v4tunnel > address 2001:6f8:900:1a4::2 > netmask 64 > endpoint 212.224.0.188 > ttl 64 > up ip link set mtu 1480 dev sixxs > up ip route add default via 2001:6f8:900:1a4::1 dev sixxs > > This is an OpenVZ host. IPsec is enabled, too and created a tun device. > But that's both the same on the other server, too. > > Kind regards, > Philipp Kern > -- > .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer > : :' : http://philkern.de Release Assistant > `. `' xmpp:[email protected] Stable Release Manager > `- finger pkern/[email protected] -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [email protected] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [email protected] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

