Bug#291461: kppp: wrong error messages on failure
Package: kppp
Version: 4:3.3.1-2
Severity: minor
Because of some temporary problem at my ISP, I was recently unable to
connect. kppp would dial up and then disconnect shortly after
connecting. The details button showed an error message complaining
about being unable to write to /var/log/syslog, ppp.log, and one other
logfile that I can't remember.
This happened several times.
However, the logfiles were being written to, and showed this
information:
Jan 20 12:12:34 wheat pppd[3758]: pppd 2.4.2 started by ross, uid 1000
Jan 20 12:12:34 wheat pppd[3758]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 20 12:12:34 wheat pppd[3758]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tts/0
Jan 20 12:12:35 wheat pppd[3758]: PAP authentication succeeded
Jan 20 12:12:35 wheat pppd[3758]: kernel does not support PPP filtering
Jan 20 12:12:37 wheat pppd[3758]: LCP terminated by peer
Jan 20 12:12:40 wheat pppd[3758]: Connection terminated.
Jan 20 12:12:40 wheat pppd[3758]: Exit.
The "terminated by peer" message means, I think, that the problem was
at the other end--nothing to do with writing to local files.
Because the problem at the ISP has been fixed, I can no longer
reproduce this failure. I realize this may make it hard to track
down, but it seems likely some of the error handling code is getting
confused.
As the error message directs attention toward a completely different
source than the true error, it's a bit of a problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27advncdfs
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kppp depends on:
ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.1-4 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-6 client library to control the FAM
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.5.2-3 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-7 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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