David Hough wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:54:01 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:>
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 02:57 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:30:15AM +0000, David Hough wrote:
> This one has me baffled. I have a system running quite happily with
> kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 and I use it with pptp to establish a VPN
> connection. This works fine. However, both my attempts to use 2.6.16
> upgrade kernels (both 2111 and 2122, shown below) have failed due
to the
> errors as found in the system log.
[big snip]
Hmm, I vaguely remember this from quite a while back.
iirc, it was caused by the pptp package bundling its own (out of date)
ppp_generic module. The kernel rpm does include ppp_generic.ko, and
it's
not reliant upon any of those symbols.
MPPE support in pptp prior to kernel 2.6.15 required an out-of-tree
ppp_mppe module, which in turn required a patched ppp_generic. From
2.6.15, MPPE support is included in the upstream kernel and no fiddling
with out-of-tree modules is needed.
That's probably the clue I need, thanks. The offending system was
upgraded from FC3 (2.6.12 kernel) to FC5 whereas the trouble-free system
was a fresh FC5 install. So I guess I just need to strip out the old
mppe stuff and possibly refresh some of the newer stuff to make sure the
latest file versions exist.
If you were using the dkms kernel module build method as suggested on
the pptpclient website, "yum remove kernel_ppp_mppe" should remove the
kernel module and replace the original one.
Paul.
