oss Sound hosed my pppd ! 1

[nfaber]

Per my title, I believe the oss sound package has hosed my pppd daemon. I had pppd working fine, connecting to the internet and surfing and I downloaded the oss sound packge and installed it. The install bombed as usual, and now my pppd will not start correctly. when I start it from the command line, it spits out gobbly goop to the screen and hangs.

I thin I need to de and reinstall it. Whats the easiest way? Do I have to recompile my kernel?

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

What linux distro are you using ? I can't really see any reason why oss should affect ppp unless it installed a conflicting library somehow. Do you get any relevant error messages if you try it out then do :

tail /var/log/messages

Also, maybe there's a lock file lying around from last session - check the /var/lock directory (ls -l /var/lock) for any 'ppp' files that are not current and delete any you find.

Other than that the obvious thing would be to reinstall the ppp rpm (assuming you are using a rpm based linux). To do this you'd mount your cd and/or change directory to where the rpms were and then do (as root) :

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs ppp*.rpm

Hope this helps

 

[nfaber]

ifincham,

I dont see why either, but it has happened twice in a row now so I am hesitant to try again. It happened once with the default redhat 7.2 distro 2.4.7-10 and once with 2.4.10. I'll remember the command and do a man on rpm next time I run into a situation where a daemon gets hosed. I have an onboard SiS 7012 chipset sound card and could not find a driver for it and oss is supposed to work with most sound cards. I want the sound so I can watch DVD movies from linux. I am trying to ween myself from windoze as quick as posible

BTW, thanks for the advice on the kernel rebiulds. I reinstalled linux and only used ext2 file systems. If you ask me, until they get the problems worked out and installed into the kernel, RedHat should install ext2 by default. I am sending this post from Linux for the first time! I got a 3COM V-everything modem and it was was recognized on bootup and completely configured itself.

Thanks again for all the help you have and I'm sure will give me. You should be commended for all the excellent advice you give.