Today I upgraded to 2.1.112 (and fixed some alias * problems in
/etc/modules.conf) to see if I could make it go away.
I couldn't.
When my pppd finishes negotiations with another linux box of mine, I get
the following:
kmod: waitpid(236,NULL,0) failed, returning -512.
and a nice:
root 236 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 13:01 0:00 (modprobe
<zombie>)
I believe it happens during ppp_deflate/bsd_comp loading because I have
another pppd connection (same box, different modem) that doesn't generate
that problem (and it connects to a site that doesn't use either bsdcomp or
ppp_defl.).
Of course I have the standard:
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 bsd_comp
in my /etc/modules.conf file.
This is a totally clean copy of 2.1.112 I'm running under, with modutils
from 2.1.85 and no devfs.
More information available upon request.
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