ppp0 fails in startup

[mwhager]

During startup, when all the various services are starting my system hangs when it tries to start device ppp0. i have to control-alt-delete and then use interactive startup to answer N to this service and then the startup continues fine. All other network devices (eth0, etc.) start fine. I only started seeing this after I installed mgetty - which I thought I needed for dial in modem access. (by the way dial in modem access works fine). I've looked in inittab and /etc/services to see if I see anything related to this and as well even went so far as to delete the ppp0 file in /etc/ppp/peers but no luck so far. Many thanks for any advice.

[Jinx]

Had a look in /etc/network/interfaces? Sounds like your ppp0 device might be looking for an IP address assigned by DHCP.

Try:

man interfaces for more information on your interfaces.

Post your boot message too, might help a few people help ya out.

dmesg | grep ppp0

Cya round
Jinx

[jumpedintothefire]

If your running RedHat or similar, change onboot="yes" to "no" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0

hope it helps....

[mwhager]

thanks jumpedinthefire----that fixed it! :p