Yesterday I upgraded 3.0.1 to 3.0.3 and today KPPP fails. On first dial-up attempt connection is made, then immediately disconnects. The status bar of Login Script Debug Window shows: "Starting pppd..." and then KPPP just stops with no further activity. Subsequent dial-up attempts are the same, except that an error dialog is displayed: "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly! Exit status: 2 See 'man pppd' for an explanation of the error codes or take a look at the kppp FAQ on http://devel-home.kde.org/~kppp/index.html" man ppd states that: "Exit Status 2 = An error was detected in processing the options given, such as two mutually exclusive options being used." The referenced url provides no useful additional information. /var/log/warn has several entries like: "pppd[2218]: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/kppp: No such file or directory" This is true, but making changes to KPPP setup does not create this file and I can't find any info about what this file should contain. Since I had not previously made any changes to my KPPP settings and I get the same failure when trying to connect with any one of 4 separate ISPs, I must assume that something in this upgrade caused the problem. I can get on-line without any difficulty using KInternet, but I would prefer to use KPPP. Can anyone suggest a possible solution to this problem? TIA Dave
Additional note to my previous message: The help "?" button in the main KPPP dialog window no longer works. Any (polite) suggestions would be appreciated. TIA Dave
On Thursday 12 September 2002 22.38, Dave Barton wrote:
Additional note to my previous message:
The help "?" button in the main KPPP dialog window no longer works.
Any (polite) suggestions would be appreciated.
TIA
Dave
Both are known problems discussed before on this list. searchable archives are at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com Look under the heading "Linux distributions". All suse's lists are there. The missing file you can just recreate. The contents should be one line plugin passwordfd.so As for the help button, you can just open konqueror and go to "help:/kppp" and the kppp help pages should open up. I don't know why the button doesn't work. regards Anders
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 06:47, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 12 September 2002 22.38, Dave Barton wrote:
Additional note to my previous message:
The help "?" button in the main KPPP dialog window no longer works.
Any (polite) suggestions would be appreciated.
TIA
Dave
Both are known problems discussed before on this list. searchable archives are at
Look under the heading "Linux distributions". All suse's lists are there.
The missing file you can just recreate. The contents should be one line
plugin passwordfd.so
As for the help button, you can just open konqueror and go to "help:/kppp" and the kppp help pages should open up. I don't know why the button doesn't work.
regards Anders
Thanks Anders. The one thing I didn't do was to search the list archives. Will try to remember in future. Regards Dave
Dave, i had a problem similar to this and posted it to sle. here is the email I received. i'm not sure which step fixed the problem. Op dinsdag 3 september 2002 18:41, schreef Franklin Maurer:
I just ran apt-get to upgrade kde and gnome, among other things, but now kppp doesn't work. The error i get is
pppd daemon died unexpectedly exit status 2
2 An error was detected in processing the options given, such as two mutually exclusive options being used.
i did upgrade kppp last night, luckily I also installed wvdial so I could email without going into windows : )
A solution could be: On Friday 05 July 2002 20:45, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 05 July 2002 21.28, Frits J. Wüthrich wrote:
I keep having a problem with Kinternet on my SuSE8.0 system. Kinternet
is buggy.
edit /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/<your provider file> and insert the line
STUPIDMODE="yes"
somewhere in it. Make sure there isn't already a line with STUPIDMODE, if there is, edit that. Duplicates won't work.
regards Anders
Or maybe this one:
SuSE 8.0 with latest KDE 3.0.2 patch from online update: I've seen this on two different machines. My kppp dialup to work was fine until this update, but now I get "Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/kppp: No such file or directory" when I try to connect.
Tried to build that file myself, but then I get "unrecognized option 'passwordfd'", which is not among the options in peers/kppp. How do I get out of this mess?
I had the same problem here. You have to the following line to /etc/ppp/peers/kppp: plugin passwordfd.so On Thursday 12 September 2002 6:08 pm, Dave Barton wrote:
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 06:47, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 12 September 2002 22.38, Dave Barton wrote:
Additional note to my previous message:
The help "?" button in the main KPPP dialog window no longer works.
Any (polite) suggestions would be appreciated.
TIA
Dave
Both are known problems discussed before on this list. searchable archives are at
Look under the heading "Linux distributions". All suse's lists are there.
The missing file you can just recreate. The contents should be one line
plugin passwordfd.so
As for the help button, you can just open konqueror and go to "help:/kppp" and the kppp help pages should open up. I don't know why the button doesn't work.
regards Anders
Thanks Anders. The one thing I didn't do was to search the list archives. Will try to remember in future.
Regards Dave
Hi Franklin, On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 09:05, Franklin Maurer wrote:
Dave, i had a problem similar to this and posted it to sle. here is the email I received. i'm not sure which step fixed the problem.
The following fixed it for me:
I had the same problem here. You have to add the following line to /etc/ppp/peers/kppp:
plugin passwordfd.so
Thanks & Regards Dave
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