Another KPPP problem

I'm having a problem using KPPP. I'm using it in SUSE 8.0, KDE 3.0.

KPPP was working but I did an automatic software update using YAST and
afterwards KPPP was not working.

I get the following messages:

"could not find ppp0 interface"
"the pppd died unexpectedly:"
exit status 2

Earlier there was a message that said

"invalid option 'passwdfd'"

I've tried to find out what exactly an exit status 2 is and also where
'passwdfd' is being found. I can't find 'passwdfd' in the ppp options
file.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Ed Kessinger <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I'm having a problem using KPPP. I'm using it in SUSE 8.0, KDE 3.0.

> KPPP was working but I did an automatic software update using YAST and
> afterwards KPPP was not working.

> I get the following messages:

> "could not find ppp0 interface"
> "the pppd died unexpectedly:"
> exit status 2

From "man pppd":

2 An error was detected in processing the options
given, such as two mutually exclusive options being
used.

> Earlier there was a message that said

> "invalid option 'passwdfd'"

Try "grep -r passwdfd /etc" and if that doesn't find anything then do
the same thing for any directory that might have a kppp configuration
file in it.

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Thanks for the grep tip.

I found file "passwordfd.so" not in /etc, but in /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.1.

It seems as if it is a plugin to pppd. It must have been added when I
did the automatic software update.

This directory was not in my $PATH. I included the directory in my $PATH
and was then able to connect and stay connected.



Clifford Kite wrote:

> Ed Kessinger <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I'm having a problem using KPPP. I'm using it in SUSE 8.0, KDE 3.0.
>>
>
>>KPPP was working but I did an automatic software update using YAST and
>>afterwards KPPP was not working.
>>
>
>>I get the following messages:
>>
>
>>"could not find ppp0 interface"
>>"the pppd died unexpectedly:"
>>exit status 2
>>
>
> From "man pppd":
>
> 2 An error was detected in processing the options
> given, such as two mutually exclusive options being
> used.
>
>
>>Earlier there was a message that said
>>
>
>>"invalid option 'passwdfd'"
>>
>
> Try "grep -r passwdfd /etc" and if that doesn't find anything then do
> the same thing for any directory that might have a kppp configuration
> file in it.
>
>

Edward Kessinger wrote:

>>
>>>"could not find ppp0 interface"
>>>"the pppd died unexpectedly:"
>>>exit status 2

My kppp have error "exit status 1"

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druid <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> My kppp have error "exit status 1"

From man pppd:

1 An immediately fatal error of some kind occurred,
such as an essential system call failing, or run-
ning out of virtual memory.

Kppp is a frontend to pppd. If you have plenty of memory then check
the pppd options. I don't run frontends and can only suggest looking
in the pppd option files, and/or adding (temporarily) the pppd option
dryrun to /etc/ppp/options.

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