eth1 & gnome-name-server cause crash

[Sharad Agarwal <sagarwal CS Berkeley EDU>]

Hello,

When I use eth0 on my Redhat7.0 machine, either at the console or with X
running (with Gnome & SawFish) I have no obvious problems.

When I use eth1 (with eth0 off) at the console, everything is fine -
networking works, machine works.

When I use eth1 and get X running, after a few seconds, my machine hangs
- I can't kill the X server with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE nor can I switch to
an alternate console (the hard drive light does not blink during this
time). I have to do a hard reboot, and in the logs, the last thing I see
before the linux startup stuff is:


Nov  7 21:59:47 localhost gnome-name-server[4905]: starting
Nov  7 21:59:47 localhost gnome-name-server[4905]: name server starting

and thats it. I have repeatedly caused this to happen, and it always
crashes at the same point in the log - after starting the
gnome-name-server. I know the physical device eth1 is not causing the
problem because when I use it as eth0, everything is fine. By the way, I
am using DHCP (pumpd).

Does anyone know what is causing the problem or what I can do to track
it down?

Thanks!
Sharad.




>rpm -qa | grep gnome
gnome-audio-extra-1.0.0-12
gnome-games-devel-1.2.0-9
gnome-media-1.2.0-7
gnome-pim-devel-1.2.0-5
gnome-utils-1.2.0-7
gnome-audio-1.0.0-12
gnome-core-1.2.1-33
gnome-games-1.2.0-9
gnome-libs-1.2.4-11
gnome-linuxconf-0.33-7
gnome-objc-1.0.2-9
gnome-pim-1.2.0-5
gnome-print-0.20-8
rep-gtk-gnome-0.13-3
switchdesk-gnome-3.6-1
xmms-gnome-1.2.2-4
gnome-applets-1.2.1-5
gnome-core-devel-1.2.1-33
gnome-libs-devel-1.2.4-11
gnome-objc-devel-1.0.2-9
pygnome-libglade-0.6.6-4