Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-11-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2014-09-06): Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org (2014-09-05): On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 09:55:24AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-31): On 31/08/14 07:00, Philipp Kern wrote: Is perhaps the same true for

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-09-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-31): On 31/08/14 07:00, Philipp Kern wrote: Is perhaps the same true for stop_rdnssd() on the next line? So Steven committed a patch in to git, getting rid of the dhcp part; Philipp, should I upload that and we'll figure out the rdnssd part another

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-09-05 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 09:55:24AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-31): On 31/08/14 07:00, Philipp Kern wrote: Is perhaps the same true for stop_rdnssd() on the next line? So Steven committed a patch in to git, getting rid of the dhcp part;

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-09-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org (2014-09-05): On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 09:55:24AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-31): On 31/08/14 07:00, Philipp Kern wrote: Is perhaps the same true for stop_rdnssd() on the next line? So Steven committed a

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-31 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:25:28PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I'd be slightly happier if Philipp would comment on this since he seems to be the one having committed this change. See: | commit 8802ca520d9e91542d92bbfa5b2fc412a31cf2e2 | Author: Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org | Date:

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi Philipp, On 31/08/14 07:00, Philipp Kern wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:25:28PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: See: | commit 8802ca520d9e91542d92bbfa5b2fc412a31cf2e2 | Author: Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org | Date: Sun Jan 30 22:29:42 2011 +1100 | | IPv6 support for using rDNS

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, Please may I commit this to d-i/netcfg (assuming my d-i Git privileges include that repository). As well as kfreebsd, I expect hurd is currently affected by this bug, so this patch would also fix it there. Thanks. --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +netcfg

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-29): Please may I commit this to d-i/netcfg (assuming my d-i Git privileges include that repository). (Yes, we have no per-repository settings that I'm aware of.) As well as kfreebsd, I expect hurd is currently affected by this bug, so this

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-12 Thread Jan Henke
Am 12.08.2014 um 00:57 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Jan, sending the whole /var/log/syslog could help, instead of just a screenshot of the last few lines. Mraw, KiBi. Sorry Cyril, getting data out of the Hypervisor during installation is pretty tricky (especially as network is not working like in

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-12 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 02:45:25AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: That I don't know. Maybe try and compare with netcfg + dhcp client du jour on Linux, and see whether netcfg's behaviour is different in both cases, or the dhcp client's one, or the kernel's one. In the end there's a lot of

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-12): Except - I'm not sure how heavily systemd is going to feature in d-i for jessie or jessie+1? Last I checked we were using busybox init… Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
retitle 757711 netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface reassign 757711 src:netcfg found 757711 netcfg/1.118 severity 757711 grave user debian-bsd@lists.debian.org usertags 757711 + kfreebsd thanks Hi, On 11/08/14 08:18, Jan Henke wrote: [...] DHCP client terminating directly

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-11): retitle 757711 netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface reassign 757711 src:netcfg found 757711 netcfg/1.118 severity 757711 grave user debian-bsd@lists.debian.org usertags 757711 + kfreebsd thanks Steve, if you want to

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: found -1 netcfg/1.117 Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2014-08-11): Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-11): retitle 757711 netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface reassign 757711 src:netcfg found 757711 netcfg/1.118 severity 757711 grave Eeww, I

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
AFAICT so far: * netcfg kills the running DHCP client after a hostname is set - this could be a bug * on kFreeBSD, isc-dhcp-client-udeb is used; killing it releases the DHCP lease and deconfigures the interface, which could be intentional * on Linux, Busybox udhcpc is used, killing it seems to

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-12): found 757711 1.108+deb7u1 thanks On 11/08/14 23:57, Cyril Brulebois wrote: found 757711 netcfg/1.118 severity 757711 grave Eeww, I missed that. Sorry, assumed you'd seen this... though I did feel the severity was justified

Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
I hope someone can explain the intent of the code below from netcfg: why are DHCP clients killed here? Is it to avoid them clobbering a manual hostname/domain setting? And is that really an issue in practice, with whatever DHCP client[s] we use now? The other thing is, the whole idea of DHCP is