[pptp-server] Ppp modules not automatically loading after upgrade

[R. de Vroede]

remove alias ppp ppp_generic from /etc/modules.conf and run depmod -a
This is a little inherited mistake.

Regards,
Richard de Vroede



On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 11:50, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just performed some RPM upgrades on our Redhat 7.3 server, I upgraded the
> kernel rpms to 2.4.18-10, I applied the patch for ppp_mppe to the kernel
> source and compiled both the kernel and modules successfully.
> 
> I also upgraded from ppp-mppe-2.4.1-5 to ppp-mppe-2.4.1-7.
> 
> Before this upgrade, the server would boot up and start up services,
> including pptpd which would all work perfectly.
> 
> After this upgrade, I get errors when clients attempt to connect to pptpd:
> 
> Aug 22 10:42:09 LinuxServer pptpd[1966]: CTRL: Starting call (launching
> pppd, opening GRE)
> Aug 22 10:42:09 LinuxServer pptpd[1966]: GRE:
> read(fd=5,buffer=804d9c0,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error =
> Input/output error
> Aug 22 10:42:09 LinuxServer pptpd[1966]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed
> (pty,gre)=(5,6)
> Aug 22 10:42:09 LinuxServer pptpd[1966]: CTRL: Client x.x.x.x control
> connection finished
> Aug 22 10:42:17 LinuxServer pptpd[1969]: CTRL: Client x.x.x.x control
> connection started
> Aug 22 10:42:19 LinuxServer pptpd[1969]: CTRL: Starting call (launching
> pppd, opening GRE)
> Aug 22 10:42:19 LinuxServer pptpd[1969]: GRE:
> read(fd=5,buffer=804d9c0,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error =
> Input/output error
> Aug 22 10:42:19 LinuxServer pptpd[1969]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed
> (pty,gre)=(5,6)
> Aug 22 10:42:19 LinuxServer pptpd[1969]: CTRL: Client x.x.x.x control
> connection finished
> 
> I realised that ppp is not loading the ppp module (ppp_generic)
> automatically, I checked my modules.conf which appears to be correct:
> 
> alias ppp ppp_generic
> alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe
> alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
> alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
> alias net-pf-47 ip_gre
> alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
> alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
> alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
> 
> If I modprobe -v ppp, the ppp_generic module loads, and clients can connect
> without any problems.
> 
> andy
> 
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