From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041114 Firefox/1.0 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:
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.
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).
I'm assuming this still doesn't work in FC4 final or the devel tree?
I gave up on this and got DSL. I no longer use external modems.
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).
Closing; please reopen if it recurs on a current release.
*** Bug 145398 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***