Package: dhcp-client
Version: 2.0pl5-19.2
Severity: grave
Hi,
The latest dhcp-client package does not work on sparc, in my case
preventing the system from getting an IP address and knocking it off the
network as a result. Attempt to bring the interface up results in:
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
/etc/dhclient-script: line 105: [: -lt: unary operator expected
/etc/dhclient-script: line 105: [: -eq: unary operator expected
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth0/08:00:20:b8:d9:81
Sending on LPF/eth0/08:00:20:b8:d9:81
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
Failed to bring up eth0.
This appears to be due to incorrect assignment of relmajor variable on
line 76 of /etc/dhclient-script:
relmajor=`echo $relmajor | sed 's/^[0-9]*\.\([0-9]*\)\..*/\1/'`
That most probably should read
relmajor=`echo $release | sed 's/^[0-9]*\.\([0-9]*\)\..*/\1/'`
otherwise relmajor variable is empty. After correcting that the script
runs, but still fails to bring the interface up. Running dhclient eth0
directly reveals the problem:
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth0/08:00:20:b8:d9:81
Sending on LPF/eth0/08:00:20:b8:d9:81
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Bus error
Steve Langasek told that this is due to the gcc changes. I would strongly
vote for removal of this package from the archive, as it appears to be
way too buggy, and saner alternatives exist.
Best regards,
Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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