Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 72311
ISDN interface activation hangs
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:30:19 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: After configuring ISDN connection with NEAT, and clicking 'Activate' button, the 'Network device activating...' just hangs there (the interface is up and running fine). When set to activate automatically on boot, the boot sequence hangs on 'Bringing up interface ippp0' too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure ISDN dialup connection with NEAT 2.Set to activate on boot, or click 'Activate' button manually. 3. Actual Results: Boot sequence hangs, or 'Network device activating...' window hangs. Expected Results: Boot sequence completes successfully, or 'Network device activating...' window disappears when the device has become active. Additional info: I solved this problem by adding an '&' character to line 329 of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ippp (i.e. backgrounding the invocation of ipppd). -ipppd $options >/dev/null 2>&1 +ipppd $options & >/dev/null 2>&1
Does "ifup ippp0" work?
ifup ippp0 starts the interface, but hangs the command line for the same reason as above. (I took the & out of the ifup-ippp script to test it). Put the & back in and it works fine again.
Those scripts are part of initscripts.
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. If this persists on a current release, such as Fedora Core 4, please open a new bug.