severity 606458 minor thanks On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:08:39AM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >> I'd appreciate it if someone from upstream could have a look at this >> comment. > >>> On establishing tunnel, xl2tpd starts pppd which fails due to missing >>> /dev/pts/xx. >>> It appears xl2tpd is not creating the pseudo tty as it should be. >>> There are no error messages in any log from xl2tpd notifying a problem with >>> creating the pts. >>> >>> Does not appear to be a problem with pts itself as other services are using >>> it ok. > > I have had one report of this (might be the same person). I have not > encountered this myself. > I've not encountered this one either. Could it be configuration related?
>>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: start_pppd: I'm running: >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: "/usr/sbin/pppd" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: "passive" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: "nodetach" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: ":" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: "refuse-pap" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: "auth" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: "require-chap" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: "name" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: "mark" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: "debug" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: "file" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: "/etc/ppp/options.l2tpd.cf" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: "/dev/pts/3" >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux pppd[26648]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux pppd[26648]: using channel 10 >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux pppd[26648]: Using interface ppp10 >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux pppd[26648]: Connect: ppp10 <--> /dev/pts/3 >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux pppd[26648]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1410> >>> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x6b14abb1> <pcomp> <accomp>] >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: control_finish: message type is >>> Call-Disconnect-Notify(14). Tunnel is 11413, call is 26233. >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: control_finish: Connection closed to >>> 66.xx.125.14, serial 1 () >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux xl2tpd[26423]: Terminating pppd: sending TERM signal >>> to pid 26648 > > It looks though that the system hangs up, after a Call-Disconnect-Notify? So > I think the pty > works fine, but is getting closed. > >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux pppd[26648]: Connection terminated. >>> Dec 9 20:20:41 linux pppd[26648]: Failed to open /dev/pts/3: No such file >>> or directory > >>> Also, not relivant here, but xl2tpd 1.2.7+dfsg-1 package is installed, but >>> "xl2tpd --version" returns "version: 1.2.6". > > I can confirm that. We'll release 1.2.8 with a fixed version number. > OK. It won't make in to Squeeze, as the deep freeze has just been announced (only RC bug fixes will be considered for propagation to testing). I'll probably wait on packaging a new upstream version until after the Squeeze release. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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