Bug 73652
| Summary: | The connection to the internet by modem is automatically dropped after a few seconds. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | ramon |
| Component: | rp3 | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | mattdm |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-10-18 16:59:42 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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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. Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. They are maintained by the Fedora Legacy project (http://www.fedoralegacy.org/) for security updates only. If this is a security issue, please reassign to the 'Fedora Legacy' product in bugzilla. Please note that Legacy security update support for these products will stop on December 31st, 2006. If this is not a security issue, 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. If you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, please note that Fedora Legacy security update support for these products will stop on December 31st, 2006. 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/. Any bug still open against Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9 at the end of 2006 will be closed 'CANTFIX'. Again, if this bug still exists in a current release, or is a security issue, please change the product as necessary. We thank you for your help, and apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. 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. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: I am using the Redhat PPP dialer applet to connect to the Internet. After a few seconds, the connection automatically closes. After investigating the problem (see bellow), it is a misunderstanding between the Redhat PPP applet and the gnome panel. If the checkbox "Terminate connection when session closes" of the applet (context menu/Properties) is checked, the applet closes the connection when it receives a "save session" message from the panel. This seems to happen every few seconds. The relevant source code is in appapplet.c, function session_save_applet. The logs in /var/log/messages shows that ppp receives signal 15. Thus it is not a problem with the phone line (in that case, a message 'modem hangup' is seen). The problem can be workarounded workarounded by renaming the file 'ifdown-ppp' to 'ifdown-ppp.bak', thus its invocation is used. We can learn who is invocating it, for example, by placing a statement echo $$ > debufile, pstree -p >> debugfile. In debugfile, we see that rp3 has invoked the ifdown. Next, the rp3 problem was built from sources with debugging info. The applet is reloaded, the pid of rp3 is learn through /sbin/pidof rp3, and we start gdb with gdb /usr/bin/rp3 <pid> . A breakpoint is placed on interface_change_status, the function used to turn the ppp0 interface down. We let it continue, start the connection, and wait until the breakpoint is hit. Then we see this stack trace: Breakpoint 1, interface_status_change (i=0x80b6d90, s=INTERFACE_DOWN) at interface.c:498 498 if (s == INTERFACE_UP) { (gdb) where #0 interface_status_change (i=0x80b6d90, s=INTERFACE_DOWN) at interface.c:498 #1 0x08053cdc in session_save_applet (applet=0x8095668, privcfgpath=0x80cd0e8 "/panel.d/default/Applet_14_Extern/", data=0x80cfd58) at appapplet.c:414 #2 0x404351e9 in marshal_signal_save () from /usr/lib/libpanel_applet.so.0 #3 0x4020b3e6 in gtk_handlers_run () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 #4 0x4020a71d in gtk_signal_real_emit () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 #5 0x402084d5 in gtk_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 #6 0x404382d8 in server_applet_save_session () from /usr/lib/libpanel_applet.so.0 #7 0x4043f165 in _ORBIT_skel_GNOME_Applet_save_session () from /usr/lib/libpanel_applet.so.0 #8 0x4047cc77 in ORBit_POA_handle_request () from /usr/lib/libORBit.so.0 #9 0x4047f233 in ORBit_handle_incoming_request () from /usr/lib/libORBit.so.0 #10 0x4047f491 in ORBit_handle_incoming_message () from /usr/lib/libORBit.so.0 #11 0x40494d69 in giop_main_handle_connection () from /usr/lib/libIIOP.so.0 #12 0x4044b509 in orb_handle_connection () from /usr/lib/libgnorba.so.27 #13 0x4041af9e in g_io_unix_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 #14 0x4041c773 in g_main_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 #15 0x4041cd39 in g_main_iterate () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 #16 0x4041ceec in g_main_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 #17 0x401d62e3 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 #18 0x40437fa7 in applet_widget_gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libpanel_applet.so.0 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---q Quit (gdb) cont