Bug 142436

Summary: initscripts - ifup ppp0 hangs and never completes
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Steve Grubb <sgrubb>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version: rawhideCC: denis, mitr, rvokal, suckfish
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Description Steve Grubb 2004-12-09 18:43:07 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I'm running rawhide initscripts 8.00-1 and seem to have a problem.
ppp-watch never completes and ifup ppp0 just hangs:

++ WVDIALSECT=ppp0
++ MODEMNAME=Modem0
++ DEMAND=no
++ IPV6INIT=no
++ IDLETIMEOUT=600
+ '[' -r keys-ifcfg-ppp0 ']'
+ case "$TYPE" in
+ DEVICETYPE=ppp
+ '[' -z ppp ']'
+ '[' -z '' -a -n '' ']'
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ REALDEVICE=ppp0
+ '[' ppp0 '!=' ppp0 ']'
+ ISALIAS=no
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ '[' no '!=' yes -a Modem '!=' xDSL ']'
+ shift
+ exec /sbin/ppp-watch ppp0 ''
Failed to activate ppp0 with error 35

The failed to activate comes when I hit ctl-c. If I look in the logs I
see this:

Dec  7 08:39:46 localhost wvdial[3228]: CONNECT 45333/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS
Dec  7 08:39:46 localhost wvdial[3228]: Carrier detected.  Chatmode
finished.
Dec  7 08:39:46 localhost pppd[3216]: Serial connection established.
Dec  7 08:39:46 localhost pppd[3216]: Using interface ppp0
Dec  7 08:39:46 localhost pppd[3216]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Dec  7 08:39:53 localhost pppd[3216]: PAP authentication succeeded
Dec  7 08:39:55 localhost pppd[3216]: local  IP address 209.165.5.174
Dec  7 08:39:55 localhost pppd[3216]: remote IP address 209.165.107.1
Dec  7 08:39:55 localhost pppd[3216]: primary   DNS address 207.69.188.187
Dec  7 08:39:55 localhost pppd[3216]: secondary DNS address 207.69.188.186

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-8.01-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ifup ppp0

Actual Results:  See above

Additional info:
Comment 1 Steve Grubb 2004-12-09 18:50:09 UTC 
Created attachment 108245 [details]
output from strace

I went into ifup-ppp and changed the exec ppp-watch to exec strace -ff -o ppp
ppp-watch. The tar file will create a directory called ifup and has all the
child processes traced.

FWIW, I backtracked to the Fedora Core 3 release of pppd (instead of rawhide)
and it still doesn't work.
Comment 2 Alexey A. Kiritchun 2005-01-11 19:03:20 UTC 
I can confirm this, it works (or, really, does not work) the same way
for me, in Core 3 (ppp-2.4.2-6.4.FC3).
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-10-03 20:13:42 UTC 
I'm assuming this still doesn't work in FC4 final or the devel tree?
Comment 4 Steve Grubb 2005-10-03 20:17:15 UTC 
I gave up on this and got DSL. I no longer use external modems.
Comment 5 Miloslav Trmač 2006-03-01 01:56:01 UTC 
CONFIG=ifcfg-ppp0 source_config would set DEVNAME to "ifcfg-ppp0" instead of
just "ppp0".  This was probably caused by rev. 1.98 of network-functions (Oct 31
2004), and was fixed in rev. 1.105 (Feb 2 2005).
Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2006-03-01 02:12:59 UTC 
Closing; please reopen if it recurs on a current release.
Comment 7 Miloslav Trmač 2006-03-05 12:46:02 UTC 
*** Bug 145398 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***