From owner-freebsd-questions  Sun Mar 30 21:05:43 1997
Return-Path: <owner-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA16245
          for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:05:43 -0800 (PST)
Received: from rma.edu (rma.edu [207.0.141.1])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA16238
          for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:05:40 -0800 (PST)
Received: from alwan.rma.edu ([207.0.141.103]) by rma.edu
	with SMTP (IPAD 1.51) id 3527500 ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:14:05 EST
Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970331000419.00685940@rma.edu>
X-Sender: alwan@rma.edu (Unverified)
X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:04:19 -0500
To: questions@freebsd.org
From: Michael Alwan <alwan@rma.edu>
Subject: Amnesiac and no user ppp
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

To all:

For a while I was having a problem with sendmail not finding my hostname.
I seemed to have fixed this problem (for some reason I had disabled the
"lo0" device in /etc/sysconfig) with Doug White's help (his message is on
my Freebsd machine).  Now sendmail is working, but my machine boots
(Amnesiac).  I can set the hostname logged in as root (all my passwords
still work); then I invoke "newaliases" to rebulid the database (I've
forgotten exactly why I do this--it was explained somewhere).

When I reboot, the machine is (Amnesiac) again.  In addition, user ppp
doesn't work correctly anymore.  It dials up and connects, switches to
packet mode, and capitalizes (ppp >> PPP).  But nothing is being routed-the
connection is idle.  I can successfully ping my own machine (ping
127.0.0.1)  but not my ISP.  I haven't specified a timeout, so the
connection just stays up but idle until I close it.

In addition, any program that needs a network connection (netscape, xemacs)
will hang if I try to start it (in X windows).

I've experimented with all kinds of configuration in hosts, ppp.conf,
ppp.linkup, and sysconfig; no change.  I've rebuilt the kernel twice (tun
and lo0 are definitely there) and remade the tun0 device several times.
User ppp dials up, connects, and idles.  The machine boots (Amnesiac) every
time.  I didn't find anything useful in the archives or handbook.  Any
ideas?  These problems follow a recent installation (from scratch) of
2.2.1., although everything but sendmail was working before.

Thanks as always--

Michael