Bug#618637: kppp does not work after upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze
Package: kppp
Version: 4:4.4.5-2
Severity: normal
I recently upgraded to Debian Squeeze (6) from Debian Lenny (5). kppp was working in Lenny, but does not work now. It connects to the modem, and dials, but it then gives an error 1 (pppd error that apparently means "An immediately fatal error of some kind occurred, such as an essential system call failing, or running out of virtual memory.") Often the program freezes, and I have to use xkill to get rid of it. I can connect to the internet using pon/poff (via a setup with pppconfig), but kppp does not work. I'm a member of both dialout and dip groups. The file /etc/ppp/peers/kppp-options is set to noauth (it's uncommented, and thus working). I tried creating a new dial-out profile, but it still did not work. Here is the kppp log:
Mar 9 23:29:05 debian pppd[5454]: The remote system is required to
authenticate itself
Mar 9 23:29:05 debian pppd[5454]: but I couldn't find any suitable
secret (password) for it to use to do so.
Mar 9 23:29:05 debian pppd[5454]: (None of the available passwords
would let it use an IP address.)
Here is what happens when I run it from the terminal:
mark@debian:~$ kppp
Opener: received SetSecret
Opener: received SetSecret
Opener: received OpenLock
Opener: received OpenDevice
Opener: received ExecPPPDaemon
In parent: pppd pid 5427
Opener: received OpenResolv
Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
Kernel supports ppp alright.
pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself
pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use
to do so. pppd: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP
address.) It was pppd that died
pppd exited with return value 1
Sending 5422 a SIGUSR1
Opener: received RemoveSecret
Opener: received RemoveSecret
Opener: received OpenResolv
Opener: received OpenResolv
Opener: received RemoveLock
Opener: received PPPDExitStatus
Opener: received PPPDExitStatus
kdeinit4: Shutting down running client.
kdeinit4: preparing to
launch /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit/libkdeinit4_klauncher.so Connecting to
deprecated signal
QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
kdeinit4: preparing to
launch /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit/libkdeinit4_kded4.so kdeinit4:
preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running...
kdeinit4: preparing to
launch /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit/libkdeinit4_kconf_update.so Connecting
to deprecated signal
QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers squeeze-updates
APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kppp depends on:
ii kdebase-runtime 4:4.4.5-1 runtime components from the offici
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libkde3support4 4:4.4.5-2 the KDE 3 Support Library for the
ii libkdecore5 4:4.4.5-2 the KDE Platform Core Library
ii libkdeui5 4:4.4.5-2 the KDE Platform User Interface Li
ii libkio5 4:4.4.5-2 the Network-enabled File Managemen
ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.6.3-4 Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii libqt4-qt3support 4:4.6.3-4 Qt 3 compatibility library for Qt
ii libqtcore4 4:4.6.3-4 Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4:4.6.3-4 Qt 4 GUI module
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii ppp 2.4.5-4 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da
kppp recommends no packages.
Versions of packages kppp suggests:
ii khelpcenter4 4:4.4.5-1 help center
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ppp/peers/kppp-options changed:
noauth
-- no debconf information
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