Bug 55584
| Summary: | RP3 only shows user ppp0 not the name of the isp link | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Clark Tompsett <clarkt> |
| Component: | rp3 | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | craigm, redhat-bugzilla |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-10-18 14:19:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Clark Tompsett
2001-11-02 14:57:37 UTC
as has been business as usual in every version of rp3 since it's introduction, rp3 once again is totally a pain in the ass!! i was just able to resolve it this way: when creating an account, let's call it "isp-work", choose "default modem" and click the "allow users to start and stop". i then added the rp3 applet to my panel and it allowed me to choose my new "isp-work" account. i clicked the green button and it dialed. it doesn't work with my eth0 though... i forgot, also click the "make this connection default route". in clark's original bug report, step 2 says to create an account as root, but it doesn't say how... i am guessing he set it up with internet-druid??? as i stated in my previous post, i was able to get everything working great, i wanted to try and get the ethernet working so i could bring it up and down with the rp3 applet, after checking the "allow users..." option i saved it and exited and then the rp3 applets i had just created all crashed. the accounts i had created with rp3-config were no longer available. i deleted everything from started over using only rp3-config and all is well. so i am guessing that rp3 & rp3-config actually are fine, it is when you create accounts with internet-druid and try to dial them with the rp3 applet that you get into trouble. it think... I orginially tried using the 'new' internet setup tool. When that failed, I went back to the setup routine in rp3-config. As root, I can start rp3 and select the isp that I want to use. Logging in as a user, I only get ppp0, eth0, and loopback. Selecting ppp0 only brings up a connection window with out dialing the modem. After deleting wvdial.conf and recreating it using rp3-conf, users can now dial the accounts. It looks that 'neat' and the new internet dialer setup are causing the problems. I tried the method suggested by clarkt, and it worked. Curious. That works for me too, thanks! But that's really quite silly.... [This is one post in a thread on the St. Louis Unix User's Group (http://www.sluug.org) discuss mailing list discussing the same bug.] > I had to chmod 644 /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-ppp0. > The ppp0 in ifcfg- depends on what you named your dial up connection. By the > way the permissions are initially 600 root:root for that file. Hope this > helps. That's exactly my problem. I had just came to the same conclusion after reading the source of rp3 and running rp3 from inside ltrace. The button for manipulating the interface (in my case 'ppp0') only shows up if the file /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 contains the line "USERCTL = true" (or "yes", "t", "y", case insensitive). My ifcfg-ppp0 does indeed contain that line. However if the file is 600 for root.root, rp3 running as non-root user cannot even open it, let alone reading the content of it. BTW, the three files /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0, /etc/sysconfig/networking/devises/ifcfg-ppp0, and /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-ppp0 are hard links to each other. Just to follow up on my post a minite ago. The quoted passage was due to Jason Smith (jvsmith at midamer dot net). I followed the instructions about: - removing /etc/wvdial.conf and any file in /etc/sysconfig/network* that relates to ppp0. - run rp3-config as root and add account and modem. - chmod 644 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 And indeed, I can add an RH PPP Dialer applet to the Gnome panel of an ordinary user that looks like the one root has. I clicked on it, it dialed the modem, and I surfed the web. Everything's great! At least until I try to disconnect the modem! Now I get an error message popup that says, "Warning! Failed to deactivate interface." Help! Thanks, Craig Well, I rebooted my system (for other reasons) and tried it again today and it worked. Don't ask me why. Thanks, Craig Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks. Please check if this issue is still present in a current Fedora Core release. If so, please change the product and version to match, and check the box indicating that the requested information has been provided. Note that any bug still open against Red Hat Linux on will be closed as 'CANTFIX' on September 30, 2006. Thanks again for your help. Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX. |