Bug#675016: ifupdown: don't use PPP updetach option by default

2012-05-29 Thread Ian Bruce
Package: ifupdown Version: 0.7~rc3 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I have specified this bug as critical/breaks the whole system, because its effect is that if an external PPP link does not come up for some reason, the system boot fails. It actually gets wedged so hard

Bug#675016: ifupdown: don't use PPP updetach option by default

2012-05-29 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 29 May 2012 03:28:46 -0700 Ian Bruce ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: I have specified this bug as critical/breaks the whole system, because its effect is that if an external PPP link does not come up for some reason, the system boot fails. It actually gets wedged so hard that

Bug#675016: ifupdown: don't use PPP updetach option by default

2012-05-29 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 29 May 2012 06:34:59 -0700 ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: pppd persist maxfail 0 updetach does not return until the PPP link comes up. If this does not happen for some reason, it never returns at all, and the boot sequence stops before any console is available, even in recovery

Bug#675016: ifupdown: don't use PPP updetach option by default

2012-05-29 Thread ian_bruce
On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:47:58 +0200 Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by wrote: I agree with many points of yours, but please explain how does it break the boot sequence. Networking initscript allows ifup to fail as far as I can see. How exactly does it break for you? pppd persist maxfail 0 updetach