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Installed version 5.44 from RedHat Rawhide ftp site (i386.rpm format). From that point on, every attempt to disconnect would cause my system to terminate the connection, followed by a complete reconnection to my ISP; redial, authenticate, etc. Once back online, the system would stay that way until the next attempt to disconnect. All of this on a system that had been working for several months without problem. Normal disconnect procedure is to use the button on the Gnome "Modem Lights" applet, which runs "/usr/sbin/usernetctl ppp0 down". Once initscripts-5.44-1.i386.rpm is installed, the only way to disconnect was to kill -9 the ppp components, and then "ifconfig ppp0 down". Once this was done, the system would stay down until I next initiated connection. Corrected the problem by forcing the installation of initscripts-5.00-1.i386.rpm.
I had the same problem, did a little debugging, and noticed that if DEMAND is not set, ifdown will kill -TERM pppd instead of ppp-watch, and ppp-watch will then happily redial. Apply this one-liner patch to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-ppp, or explicitly set DEMAND=no in the ifcfg or somewhere. --- ifdown-ppp.old Fri Aug 18 16:38:10 2000 +++ ifdown-ppp Tue Oct 3 03:18:51 2000 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ CONFIG=$1 source_config -if [ "${DEMAND}" != no -a -f /var/run/ppp-${DEVICE}.pid ] ; then +if [ "${DEMAND}" = yes -a -f /var/run/ppp-${DEVICE}.pid ] ; then PID=`head -1 /var/run/ppp-${DEVICE}.pid` kill -TERM ${PID} sleep 2
This will be fixed in 5.60-1; thanks!