Bug 54680 - Demand-dialed PPP connections hang when started (again)
Summary: Demand-dialed PPP connections hang when started (again)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-10-16 09:28 UTC by Göran Uddeborg
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:23 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2003-07-11 19:27:02 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
My modifications to make PPP startup work again. (917 bytes, patch)
2001-10-16 09:33 UTC, Göran Uddeborg
no flags Details | Diff

Description Göran Uddeborg 2001-10-16 09:28:02 UTC
Description of Problem:
When I upgraded from initscripts 5.49 to 6.40 an old problem reappeared. 
For PPP interfaces using demand dialing, "ifup" hangs.

In the 5.49 version of ifup-ppp the DEMAND option modified the behaviour of
the script in some critical places.  This code apparently was lost
somewhere on the way to 6.40.  As far as I can understand it is still
needed.  At least for me, "ifup" hangs when I try to do "ifup ppp0".  And
consequently, the boot process don't run smoothly.
 
I modified ifup-ppp with some code from the 5.49, and my system appears to
be fine again.  I enclose the patch. (Beware, though, this is not very well
tested.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.40-1

How Reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set DEMAND=yes in one ifcfg-pppX
2.  Do "ifup pppX" for the same X.

Actual Results:
The ifup don't finish.

Expected Results:
I expect ifup to finish.  Apparently the boot scripts do too.

Comment 1 Göran Uddeborg 2001-10-16 09:33:50 UTC
Created attachment 34182 [details]
My modifications to make PPP startup work again.

Comment 2 Göran Uddeborg 2003-07-11 19:27:02 UTC
This works again with initscripts 7.24-2.92. (From Cambridge alpha 2.  Could
very well work with 7.14-1 from RH9 too, even if I can't easily verify right now.)


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