Re: Problem with Simple.Connect

["Peter Holik" <peter holik at>]

Dan Williams schrieb:
> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 21:48 +0200, Peter Holik wrote:
>> As reported at ubuntu:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-widget-networkmanagement/+bug/334122/comments/44
>>
>> network-manager-0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548
>>
>> did not work for me i got:
>>
>> NetworkManager: <WARN> pppd_timed_out(): Looks like pppd didn't initialize our dbus module
>>
>> i also saw no logs from pppd.
>>
>> to see what happens i tried to get an strace output with
>>
>> while :; do sleep .2; if pgrep pppd; then strace -s1000 -f -p $(pgrep pppd); fi;done
>>
>> write(1, "Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pppd-plugin.so loaded.", 52) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be
>> restarted)
>> --- SIGTTOU (Stopped (tty output)) @ 0 (0) ---
>> --- SIGTTOU (Stopped (tty output)) @ 0 (0) ---
>>
>> This means that pppd writes to stdout, but networkmanager did not read anything.
>>
>> With this patch my huawai E220 is working now
>
> Does it work consistently *without* that patch if you run NM manually
> with:
>
> NM_PPP_DEBUG=1 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
>
> ?
>
> Dan

No!

I tried to change nm to start pppd with "nologfd" or "nolog" but the
the error then is at the nm-pluguin (calls g_message).

cu Peter


>> --- network-manager-0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548.orig/src/ppp-manager/nm-ppp-manager.c +++
>> network-manager-0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548/src/ppp-manager/nm-ppp-manager.c @@ -921,7
>> +921,7 @@
>>
>>         priv->pid = 0;
>>         if (!g_spawn_async (NULL, (char **) ppp_cmd->array->pdata, NULL,
>> - G_SPAWN_DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD,
>> + G_SPAWN_DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD || G_SPAWN_STDOUT_TO_DEV_NULL || G_SPAWN_STDERR_TO_DEV_NULL,
>>                                         pppd_child_setup,
>>                                         NULL, &priv->pid, err)) {
>>                 goto out;
>>
>> Well it would be better to read from stdout / stderr and log it
>>
>>
>>
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