Bug#127678: boot-floppies: unable to detect when ppp-connection went down

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

(Reassiging to base-config.)

Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> after having the base system installed and rebooted the system will continue with installing the
> "rest" of debian. I did this through a ppp-style install. Unfortunately the system was unable to
> detect that a ppp connection went down. I had to restart it manually through "pon". If this
> happens to a newby s/he will sweat blood to find out a) what went wrong and b) how to get the 
> ppp connection back on. So I suggest either to give the system a means to find out whether the
> line's still up or to give the user a possibility to redial.
> 
> I'm tagging this report as normal not as wishlist, since I think that the install process should
> be as bullet proof as possible and since I think that connection loss while in ppp is not such an
> uncommon thing.

I agree, and more robust ppp handling has been on base-config's TODO
list for a while already. Unfortunatly it is probably too late to fix
this for woody.

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