Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-18 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=109277 The problem looks like a lack of proper locking during the operations with clist (specifically, this causes multiple entry to cblock_alloc()). I'm ready to provide further debugging information on

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-18 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
Hello! On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: Not that it contradicts anything you said, but it's worth re-emphasizing that there is apparently no-one in the community interested in maintaining pppd on FreeBSD, which is how it got to the current sorry state. I agree that the absence of pp

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 09:31:47PM +0200, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: > > Hello! > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >Not that it contradicts anything you said, but it's worth > >re-emphasizing that there is apparently no-one in the community > >interested in maintaining pppd on FreeBS

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > There's information around PPP that's not been communicated or > documented well. The 'performance' way to do PPP on FreeBSD is to go off > and run MPD, because it has the right compromise between doing low-level > packet shunting in the kernel

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-11 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Sunday, 11. February 2007 02:43, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > So far so good. The problem is that the BSD magicians and the KDE GUI > magicians are not sharing their spell-books, and thus, their models of > how the code operates; the communities have to intersect somehow. That > could be you, y'kn

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-10 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Michael Nottebrock wrote: And yes, if pppd is broken and won't be fixed, it should disappear. And when that happens, so will kppp (it won't build once the if_ppp.h header is gone). Which of course would solve the problem in a way. In any case: I dragged this issue onto -stable precisel

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-09 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Saturday, 10. February 2007 07:34, Ian Smith wrote: > Since once trying (and failing) to debug or even comprehend a spaghetti > of scripts and configs behind a dialout-only linux pppd setup some years > ago, compared to the much more straightforward ppp with mgetty setup for > both dialout and

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Thursday, 8. February 2007 08:38, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 7. February 2007 18:45, Joe Vender wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 01:59, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > >

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-08 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Thursday, 8. February 2007 08:38, Ian Smith wrote: > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > On Wednesday, 7. February 2007 18:45, Joe Vender wrote: > > > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 01:59, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > > There is https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:38:08PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > Not to suggest that any pppd/kernel interaction problems ought not to be > addressed by those wishing to maintain pppd for linux compatibility or > other reasons, but the reality is that most FreeBSD users have long > preferred user ppp

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Wednesday, 7. February 2007 18:45, Joe Vender wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 01:59, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > ... > > > > > There is https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55785 on record, your > > > description sounds more like y