Bug 52285

I just updated from 7.0 to 7.1 (with latest updates) and i'm getting the same
thing. There quite a few bug reports that also look like they are
related...going back to 2-2001
(bugzilla search ppp and initscripts)

What appears to happen is that ppp-watch is hanging and complaining about not
finding /var/run/ppp-ppp0.pid and other goofyness.
I downloaded the source for both initscripts and ppp so I could look at the
source and see what going on and to find out what the errpr codes were.

It will dial, connect and then kill itself. One of the workarounds includes
editing 'cfgup-ppp' and commenting out

#  exec /sbin/ppp-watch "${DEVICE}" "$@"

..and then letting the exec pppd line at the bottom fire it up. This also
requires an edit which is to remove the leading '-' from the updetach option

#exec /usr/sbin/pppd -updetach $opts ${MODEMPORT} ${LINESPEED} \
exec /usr/sbin/pppd $opts ${MODEMPORT} ${LINESPEED} \
    ipparam ${DEVNAME} linkname ${DEVNAME} call ${DEVNAME}\
    noauth \
    ${PPPOPTIONS}

which resolves the 
"/usr/sbin/pppd: unrecognized option '-updetach'"
problem. This does not correct the fact you can no longer run ppp-watch having a
reconnect on failure setup or bring up ppp0 at boot time

This machine had a working setup that I had been using for years. I moved my
files aside and let rp3 create new ones and the problem persisted.
If I uncomment the 'exec /sbin/ppp-watch' line now that I have it rigged it will
it will go back to hanging/failing.

For now I have a cron looking for pppd and restarting it.

#!/bin/ksh
/bin/ps cuax | /bin/grep ' pppd'
result="$?"
if [ $result == "1" ]; then
        print "Not found..starting pppd";
        /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp ppp0 &
else
        print "Started pppd"
fi

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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
7.1 with all updates
initscripts-5.84-1
ppp-2.4.0-2----------------

I made a mistake in my report

The default line in ipup-ppp is:

exec /usr/sbin/pppd -detach $opts ${MODEMPORT} ${LINESPEED} \
    ipparam ${DEVNAME} linkname ${DEVNAME} call ${DEVNAME}\
    noauth \
    ${PPPOPTIONS}

I changed '-detach' to 'updetach':

exec /usr/sbin/pppd updetach $opts ${MODEMPORT} ${LINESPEED} \
    ipparam ${DEVNAME} linkname ${DEVNAME} call ${DEVNAME}\
    noauth \
    ${PPPOPTIONS}

...in order for it to detach and work properly for me while having the 'exec
/sbin/ppp-watch' line commented out.
Otherwise 'ifup-ppp ppp0' hangs and ctrl-c kills the connection.

Sorry about that.

Please verify this with a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora
Core and reopen it against the new version if it still occurs.

Closing as "not a bug" for now.