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has caused the Debian Bug report #353280,
regarding dhclient does not reliably exit when the device disappears
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Package: dhcp3-client
Version: 3.0.3-6
Severity: normal
If I remove a network device under control of dhclient (e.g. a wifi
adapter that supports being turned off by ACPI), dhclient will
complain but it will not die. As I move around a lot and turn wifi
on and off as needed, I end up with dozens of dhclient processes for
the wifi device, which tend to like to get into each others way.
I think it would make sense for dhclient to exit when its device
disappears.
lapse:/etc/ifplugd/action.d# dhclient wifi
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Listening on LPF/wifi/00:14:a4:04:ea:dc
Sending on LPF/wifi/00:14:a4:04:ea:dc
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
*** i turned the device off here ***
receive_packet failed on wifi: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
send_packet: No such device
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
send_packet: No such device
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
send_packet: No such device
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
send_packet: No such device
DHCPDISCOVER on wifi to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
send_packet: No such device
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
lapse:/etc/ifplugd/action.d# ps aux | grep [d]hc
root 23599 0.0 0.0 2164 508 ? Ss 11:31 0:00 dhclient wifi
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages dhcp3-client depends on:
ii debianutils 2.15.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dhcp3-common 3.0.3-6 Common files used by all the dhcp3
ii libc6 2.3.5-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
dhcp3-client recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 4.4.3-P1-8+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1143544
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
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