#25 php4-pcntl-4.4.9-3.fc18.x86_64 with pptpconfig-20060821-3.fc18.noarch

[Ryan Letourneau]

Found bug in the php4-pcntl-4.4.9-3.fc18.x86_64 package when installed with pptpconfig-20060821-3.fc18.noarch and dependencies. Packages location ;
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/beta/fc18/x86_64/

• Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)
• Kernel 3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64 SMP

Installed packages ;

• pptp-release-4-6.fc18.noarch
• pptp-setup-1.7.2-18.fc18.x86_64
• pptp-1.7.2-18.fc18.x86_64

• pptpconfig-20060821-3.fc18.noarch

• php4-pcntl-devel-4.4.9-3.fc18.x86_64

• php4-pcntl-4.4.9-3.fc18.x86_64
• php4-pcntl-gtk-1.0.2-6.fc18.x86_64

PROBLEM

Trying to setup pptpconfig client to connect to windows VPN server.
After packages are installed running pptpconfig in terminal I get this error;

bash: /sbin/pptpconfig: /bin/php4-pcntl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

And in gui I get this error;

The exec() call failed.

SOLUTION

/bin/php4-pcntl is a link to /usr/lib64/php4-pcntl/bin/php

for whatever reason, pptpconfig does not like the link, If I remove the link
and copy the binary to /bin/ and name it php4-pcntl, then pptpconfig will run

cd /bin/
rm -f php4-pcntl
cp /usr/lib64/php4-pcntl/bin/php php4-pcntl

Thanks,

Ryan

[James Cameron]

Thanks, but pptpconfig is deprecated, so we won't be fixing this bug.

Use either pptp-setup package for servers without display, or use the NetworkManager-pptp package on GNOME, or use the kde-plasma-networkmanagement-pptp package on KDE.