Kernel error, after shutdowning ppp device

[Jason Dravet]

I am having a problem with ppp too.  When I do a /etc/ppp/ppp-off something
happens and I am not able to reconnect to the ISP without rebooting.  After
I do a /etc/ppp/ppp-off, I did a ps -A and pppd was still running.  I was
able to kill -9 it, but I am still unable to connect to my ISP until I
reboot.  I am running kernel 2.6.5-1.358.i686.  I will post the relevant
parts of my /var/log/messages later.

Jason

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:05:10 +0200
From: Fons van der Beek <fons at so-o.nl>
Subject: Re: Kernel error, after shutdowning ppp device
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Message-ID: <001201c452e1$c5380a80$020aa8c0 at homenetwork.local>
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If got the same messages in regarding to ppp, it looks like ppp is not
stable......
does anybody had the same trouble ??

(PS i did a clean install of Fedora Core 2, after this a linuxiant 8k stacks
kernel)
Jun 14 20:15:06 borderline kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to
become free. Usage count = 1 Jun 14 20:15:16 borderline kernel:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to become free. Usage count = 1 Jun
14 20:14:13 borderline pppd[2871]: Terminating on signal 2.
Jun 14 20:14:15 borderline last message repeated 8332 times Jun 14 20:14:16
borderline mxstream: Shutting down mxstream connection:
succeeded
Jun 14 20:14:21 borderline last message repeated 4 times

With kind regards
Fons van der Beek