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Re: pppd freeze?





On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Stas Bekman wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Something strange happens to my linux box last time and I don't like it!
> 
> I use pppd to dialin, it works OK. Then after a few (10-15) days online, 
> pppd suddenly freezes when I try to call it (just does nothing no errors,
> no logs) with /usr/sbin/pppd or from script
> 
> Let's say I connect OK , disconnect , then xlock the screen, come back
> in half a day , unxlock try to connect but nothing happens?

	try removing the lock of the modem , if you kill -9 your pppd (or
		killall)
	ie ... rm /var/lock/LCK..ttyS? 
        (debian place, if you use something else it  my be somewhere else)
> 
> The only thing to fix it was to reboot, and that is not the way it should
> be.
> 
> The strange thing is that I do nothing between 2 calls and still it
> happens.
> 
> Any hunches?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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