[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#760163: network-manager: network-manager: vanishing /dev/ppp

Janusz S. Bień jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl
Mon Sep 1 12:59:42 UTC 2014


Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.10.0-1.1
Severity: important
Control: reopen 755770

I still have the problem discribed a month ago: 

Quote/Cytat - "Janusz S. Bień" <jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl> (Wed 23 Jul 2014 08:16:56 AM CEST):

> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.9.10.0-1
> Severity: normal
>
> After one of the recent upgrades VPN stopped working for the following
> reasons
>
> Jul 23 08:03:49 cauda pppd[6474]: Plugin 
> /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.6/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so loaded.
> Jul 23 08:03:49 cauda pppd[6474]: Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: 
> No such file or directory
> Jul 23 08:03:49 cauda pppd[6474]: You need to create the /dev/ppp 
> device node by
> executing the following command as root:
> 	mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
>
> When I create the node by hand, VPN starts working but only to the next
> reboot. The side effect is that clicking on VPN ... OFF has no effect, I
> reboot to disconnect (I guess there is a simple way, bu I haven't found
> it).

Best regards

Janusz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.8.6-2
ii  init-system-helpers    1.21
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.3.1-1
ii  libc6                  2.19-9
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.6-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.4-2
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.40.0-4
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28      3.3.6-2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         208-8
ii  libmm-glib0            1.2.0-1
ii  libndp0                1.4-1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.17-1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.24-2
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.10.0-1.1
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.10.0-1.1
ii  libpam-systemd         208-8
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-6.1
ii  libreadline6           6.3-8
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.46.0-2
ii  libsystemd-daemon0     208-8
ii  libsystemd-login0      208-8
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.8
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13
ii  policykit-1            0.105-6.1
ii  udev                   208-8
ii  wpasupplicant          1.1-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          3.13-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.71-1
ii  iptables      1.4.21-2
ii  modemmanager  1.2.0-1
ii  ppp           2.4.6-2

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
no-auto-default=00:1c:25:de:59:1f,
[ifupdown]
managed=false


-- no debconf information

-- 
                           ,   
Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bien -  Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bien - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department)
jsbien at uw.edu.pl, jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl, http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/



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