disconnecting dialup connection

vox barbaravox barbara
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Well, once in a while a pretty annoying (and therefore disturbing) issue occurs, when i am going to dissconnect the modem dialup connection from the internet.



When i hit "disconnect" in the menu bar, the modem icon tells me correctly "disconnecting ... disconnecting ...". So far. But sometimes the modem icon continues telling me "disconnecting" forever. If that occurs, i have to reboot my computer, because everything else fails to work to get rid of that "disconnecting" message. Sombody hinted to me that this behavior might occur, if the UIserver crashes. Indeed, the log tells me something about UIserver crashes. But why, and why do i have to reboot?



Though, log out and in does not work.

restart finder does not work.

killing UIserver does not work (therefore i am urged to log out and in again, but the issue remains)



any hints?



Costique?



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Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    costiquecostique Posts: 1,084member
    Anybody called me? Here I am.



    Try this:
    Code:


    sudo killall pppd



  • Reply 2 of 5
    vox barbaravox barbara Posts: 2,021member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by costique

    Anybody called me? Here I am.



    Try this:Code:


    sudo killall pppd







    Thank you. Now i have to wait until the next time that issue occurs

    Besides, why can't i escape, when that pppd thing f*****g dances with my system?
  • Reply 3 of 5
    jwri004jwri004 Posts: 626member
    Do you have to do this twice?



    I know when I sudo kill the pppd process number, the first time as a dud. Second time works a charm.



  • Reply 4 of 5
    costiquecostique Posts: 1,084member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Vox Barbara

    why can't i escape, when that pppd thing f*****g dances with my system?



    What do you mean by escaping? The actual event sequence is like this:

    1. You choose 'Disconnect' or the connection breaks due to an error.

    2. The PPP menu extra react by scrolling 'Disconnecting...'.

    3. The PPP menu extra waits for pppd to terminate and stops scrolling only when it terminates, i.e. the connection is properly closed.



    I don't know what errors cause pppd to hang, but when you force it to quit, the menu extra returns to life.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    vox barbaravox barbara Posts: 2,021member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by costique

    ...

    I don't know what errors cause pppd to hang, but when you force it to quit, the menu extra returns to life.



    Thank you a lot. (hopefully i can give you something back for your efford.)
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