From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020712 Description of problem: /sbin/ifup hangs when I try to connect (either through the commandline or through redhat-config-network, and /var/log/messages reads: Aug 5 20:04:25 hive pppd[4314]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Aug 5 20:04:25 hive ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/ttyS1 at 38400 Aug 5 20:04:25 hive pppd[4314]: Connect script failed Aug 5 20:04:26 hive pppd[4314]: Exit. ifup doesn't return (exit), but keeps trying, and the above message keeps repeating until I ^C wvdial still works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure modem and dial-up account 2./sbin/ifup ppp0 Actual Results: as above - /var/log/messages reads "connect script failed" but ifup keeps trying to connect Expected Results: connection to internet, ifup exits. Additional info:
Whoops, handling of --remotename on the command line fell up when we updated to 1.53. Fixed in 1.53-5 and later.
Closing out some bugs that have been in MODIFIED state. Please reopen if they persist.