Your message dated Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:31:09 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1143544: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #693566, regarding isc-dhcp-client: the "retry" feature doesn't work to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: isc-dhcp-client Version: 4.2.4-3 Severity: normal The dhclientconf(5) man page says: The retry statement retry time; The retry statement determines the time that must pass after the client has determined that there is no DHCP server present before it tries again to contact a DHCP server. By default, this is five minutes. But after my machine booted, /var/log/syslog shows concerning dhclient: Nov 17 13:24:46 ypig dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 Nov 17 13:24:54 ypig dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16 Nov 17 13:25:10 ypig dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19 Nov 17 13:25:29 ypig dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 Nov 17 13:25:40 ypig dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. Nov 17 13:25:40 ypig dhclient: Unable to obtain a lease on first try. Exiting. i.e. dhclient exited instead of retrying after 5 minutes (and because of that, I lost one hour to go to my lab to restart the network with a "ifup eth0"). This bug is reproducible, even if I uncomment the retry line of the /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf file to have: retry 60; A working workaround is to set "timeout" to a huge value. Either the "retry" feature or the documentation should be fixed. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client depends on: ii debianutils 4.3.4 ii iproute 20120521-3 ii isc-dhcp-common 4.2.4-3 ii libc6 2.13-36 isc-dhcp-client recommends no packages. Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client suggests: pn avahi-autoipd <none> pn resolvconf <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf changed: option rfc3442-classless-static-routes code 121 = array of unsigned integer 8; send host-name = gethostname(); request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers, domain-name, domain-name-servers, domain-search, host-name, netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu, rfc3442-classless-static-routes; -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---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 earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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