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and subject line Re: ifupdown: invokes dhclient incorrectly
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regarding ifupdown: Does not work with isa dhcp 4.0 client
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.7~alpha3
Severity: important
DHCP is not configured with my connection -- instead, I have to
manually type in:
sudo dhclient wlan0
However, I have "inet dhcp" in my config file. Here is the contents
of /etc/network/interfaces:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-driver wext
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface lo inet6 loopback
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ifupdown depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy
ii iproute 20090324-1 networking and traffic control too
ii libc6 2.10.1-0exp1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii net-tools 1.60-23 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ifupdown recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ifupdown suggests:
ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp3-client 4.1.0-1 ISC DHCP client
pn ppp <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
ifupdown/convert-interfaces: true
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.7~alpha4
Andrew Pollock wrote:
> It's passing a spurious -e to dhclient, which should normally be accompanied
> by
> a VAR=value pair, but is not. This confuses dhclient's option parser, and it
> thinks the penultimate argument is the interface name (which is is not) and
> falls afoul of internal buffer-overflow checking.
>
> The -e option needs to be removed.
Thanks for catching and fixing this, and thanks to the other Andrew
for merging the fix to experimental at long last.
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep ifupdown
ifupdown hold
$ echo ifupdown install | su -c 'dpkg --set-selections'
Happily,
Jonathan
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