Hi > Sebastian wrote:" Thank you for your bug. To confirm by somebody using a > modem" You mean you don't have a modem??!?;)
I have the same in 7.04. Activate and Deactivate are greyed out. The modem is turned on and off by going instead, Modem-monitor -> Properties -> Check or uncheck the modem box. The connection works fine like that, but the intended customer should have a shorter route. Also, When mouseover wiht the connection up, it says "could not get the connection time" Running on the command line ifup ppp0 and ifdown ppp0 both give the error ifup(down): failed to open statefile/var/run/network/ifstate: Permission denied /var/run/network/ifstate is owner and group root and permissions 644. After sudo chgrp dialout /var/run/network/ifstate; sudo chmod 664 /var/run/network/ifstate it changed to ifup(down): failed to open temoporary statefile /var/run/network/.ifstate.tmp: Permission denied. Grrrrr. So, chgrp /var/run/network and chmod 2775: ifdown fails to bring down ppp0 since it is not configured (it claims) errr, but it is up (so ifconfig and I claim). Ifdown must be mistaken :-P immediately after ifup ppp- gives SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied, Failed to open PID file, Permission denied. /var/run/ppp0.pid is root.root 644. Mighty tedious, no? Yet I do not falter. Not immediately. I dig around /etc/ppp. Perhaps it can take care of this? What about /etc/rc.local doing the /var/run/network group dialout and perms 2775 and /etc/ppp/ip-up doing the ppp0.pid file group dialout and perm 664? I am trying it anyway. Perhaps an actual developer has a more comprehensive, elegant solution. This doesn't actually ungrey the Activate/Deactivate lines in modem-monitor :/ Well, ifup ppp0 now gives error no such interface yet it still gives the pid file error, I seem to have made things worse. But not much worse. Now ifdown ppp0 does not give any error. But when one logs in, the applet still can't find whatever permissions it needs. No correction, everything is badly broken now. /var/run/ifstate somehow got owned by the user and group dialout but no group readwrite perms. okey dokey. /me reverts to normal and goes to inform the customer just how it will really work. clickety clickety click. cheers for now Jan PS. and thanks for all the good work PPS. people really have modems -- Cannot activate Modem Monitor in Ubuntu 6.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
