pptp stops working after upgrade I use openrc-0.2.5 to connect to my ISP over pptp logs after upgrade pppd logs: Jun 27 19:03:11 xeon pppd[11047]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. Jun 27 19:03:11 xeon pppd[11047]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0 Jun 27 19:03:11 xeon pppd[11047]: using channel 14 Jun 27 19:03:11 xeon pppd[11047]: Using interface ppp0 Jun 27 19:03:11 xeon pppd[11047]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/7 Jun 27 19:03:12 xeon pppd[11047]: Fatal signal 11 Jun 27 19:03:12 xeon pppd[11047]: tcflush failed: Input/output error Jun 27 19:03:12 xeon pppd[11047]: Exit. Jun 27 19:03:12 xeon /etc/init.d/net.ppp0[11046]: start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/pppd' pptp logs: Jun 27 19:03:11 xeon pptp[11057]: mdns: Couldn't open nss_mdns configuration file /etc/nss_mdns.conf, using default. Jun 27 19:03:11 xeon pptp[11057]: anon log[main:pptp.c:272]: The synchronous pptp option is NOT activated Jun 27 19:03:11 xeon pptp[11070]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 1 'Start-Control-Connection -Request' Jun 27 19:03:11 xeon pptp[11070]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:738]: Received Start Control Connection Reply Jun 27 19:03:11 xeon pptp[11070]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:772]: Client connection established. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: pppd segfaults Expected Results: pppd must start pptp link Portage 2.2_rc1 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-rc8-zen1.0 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-rc8-zen1.0-i686-Pentium_III_-Coppermine-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:03:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.1/env /usr/kde/4.1/share/config /usr/kde/4.1/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="candy ccache distlocks parallel-fetch prelink preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/" 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sse-filters ssl startup-notification statistics stroke subversion svg swat swig symlink sysfs syslog sysvipc szip t1lib taglib tcl tcltk tcpd tetex tex4ht tga theora threads threadsonly tidytiff timidity tivo tk toolbar tools transcode truetype ucs2 uim uml unicode ups urandom usb userlocales utempter utf8 v4l v4l2 vboxbfe vcd vcdimager videos vidix vim vim-pager vim-syntax visualization voice vorbis vorbis-psy vst wavpack web webinterface wideband wifi win32codecs winbind wma wma123 wmf wxgtk1 wxwindows x264 x86 x86emu xanim xattr xcb xchatdccserver xchattext xcomposite xetex xface xine xml xml2 xmldoclet xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xmp xorg xosd xpm xrandr xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid yv12 zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="cmipci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm 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Fixed in r17. The passwordfd-read-early.patch was to blame for that.
