Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 160998
DSL won't start at boot
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:08 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pt-BR; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: After upgrading from FC3, I noticed my DSL failed to connect at boot time. As a consequence, many network aware applications, like the NTP client, failed. Logging in, I could activate the connection from the system-control-network application. I tried opening system-config-network, removing the DSL connection, (boot to feel safe), add a new DSL connection and reboot. But there was no change in the system's behaviour. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-1.3.26-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add a new DSL connection, marking it to come up at boot time. 2. Reboot. 3. Don't profit. Actual Results: The boot scripts didn't properly activate the DSL connection. Expected Results: The boot scripts should have properly activated the DSL connection. Additional info: I have an ip-up.local script in /etc/ppp to do some system specific stuff I need. It works properly when I activate the connection through system-control-network.
any messages in /var/log/messages about the failure??
On a clean install of FC4, the system hangs on startup while connecting to a dialup connection. If I disconnect the line from the modem, boot up will continue. I can connect manually without problems. If I then shutdown, I get the following message when shutting down the dialup connection: Shutting down interface dialup... audit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=1981 This is the first of about six lines; I can't catch it all while shutting down, and I don't know where to find it if it is in a log file somewhere. Owen
I checked /var/log/messages and /var/log/boot.log for logged errors. I found only (in /var/log/boot.log): Jun 23 19:44:29 localhost NET[10592]: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-post : updated /etc/resolv.conf
This problems stopped occurring to me byte the time of the 2.6.12 kernel update in a fully updated system.
Currently, my problems have become intermittent... I will wait to see whether they are fixed completely now. I still get junk during startup and shutdown when enabling/disabling the dialup connection.
does it help, if you disable selinux?
(In reply to comment #7) > does it help, if you disable selinux? Sorry, I'm using Debian Linux now; I got tired of problems with Fedora. I also no longer have a dialup connection. However, a kernel update fixed the problem in FC4, but the problem returned in FC5. As of about two months ago, updates had not fixed the problem in FC5.