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Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working



On Saturday, August 2, 2014 4:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 31.07.2014 20:27, schrieb Rusi Mody:
> > After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie)
> > auto starting of ppp has stopped working.
> > So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf.
> > Any ideas?

> This is a sysvinit specific problem [1].
> Spefically, udev no longer creates dead devices notes which are used to
> trigger the auto-loading of kernel modules.

> Under systemd this is done properly, for sysvinit, we will need a
> workaround as in [2].

> The solution is *not* to add the module to /etc/modules.

> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749021
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749021#10

Thanks Michael

I see that that bug links to
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755258

which is exactly my problem (now I can call it a bug!)

Since I currently have a bandaid solution I guess best to wait for the
dust around systemd to settle a bit... What do you think?


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