From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) Description of problem: the Popup window does not disappear after ppp connection started How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. click rp3 as applet from Gnome taskbar 2. start ppp connection from pop up window 3. ppp connecton made. the pop up still shows "Waiting...". It should go away. Actual Results: The rp3 window remains with "Waiting .." condition. I manually kill the window by clicking "X" icon at the right corner of Title bar. ppp still remains connected. Again the rp3 applet does not change to "green" sometimes after ppp connection is made Additional info: rp3 is really nice, but unreliable at times. Instead I find "/sbin/ifup ppp0" from command line to be more reliable.
RH 7.2 still has this problem
I recently installed ximian desktop for redHat 7.1 After that rp3 seems to work fine. I always see the rp3 popup window to hide and dock successfully into the panel with green LED on. Seems like ximian version GNOME 1.4 for 7.1 has fixed this problem.
I see this behavior in 7.2, initscripts-6.40-1. Always reproducible. I'm not using gnome, and running rp3 as a standalone application. Actually, I usually run "usernetctl ppp0 up" from the command line. The program never returns, however. The usernetctl program is effectively exec'ing "ppp-watch ppp0 ifcfg-ppp0", which never returns back to the command line (and I end up with two ppp-watch processes since ppp-watch forks). Presumably, usernetctl/ppp-watch should return the command-line prompt, and I would think the rp3 problem is related.
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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.