Your message dated Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:31:09 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1143544: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #478288,
regarding /sbin/dhclient3: locks up (pauses for a long time) on a network
filesystem
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Package: dhcp3-client
Version: 3.1.0-5
Severity: normal
File: /sbin/dhclient3
Hello
when network is already configured in the kernel/initramfs, the / is
mounted from network, and dhclient is started to run the appopriate
setup scripts it pauses for a very long time.
Skipping dhclient is not really an option as it is necessary to run the
appropriate networking startup scripts on the system.
Dhclient locks up because it runs scripts from dhclient-enter-hooks.d
(such as the script from samba-common) while the network is down. These
scripts read and write the filesystem that is inaccessible thanks to
dhclient, and it takes a long time before all the timeouts pass.
Moving the script to dhclient-exit-hooks.d solves the problem. However,
many packages appear to install scripts there.
Suggestions:
1) do not down the network, ever, unless the lease is revoked
2) do not run arbitrary scripts while the network is down
Thanks
Michal
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.3-src (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dhcp3-client depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.20 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.28.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dhcp3-common 3.1.0-5 common files used by all the dhcp3
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
dhcp3-client recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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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/.
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