Hm, of course, if one starts dhclient in debug mode (foreground) by adding a "-d", everything does work. :/ Interestingly when I attach to it with strace, I see "strace: Process <pid> attached with 4 threads". The foreground process does not act on ctrl-c which at least is consistent with the broken behaviour. When not working (in the background) strace will not find/report any threads running. The other thing to note (it was mentioned before) is that looking at /proc/<pid>/fd the process has a file handle for the lease file, but looking at the time stamps it does not get updated. Likely because that is something that one of the threads would do. This also explains why dhclient under network-manager control works. Network-manager starts it in foreground/debug mode (with -d).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to isc-dhcp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1551351 Title: dhclient does not renew leases Status in bind9 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in isc-dhcp package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in bind9 source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in isc-dhcp source package in Xenial: Confirmed Bug description: Release: Xenial I think this only recently started after some bind9 updates triggered a rebuild. When booting dhclient gets started and acquires an IP address, but it does seem to lock up somewhere as it does not renew the lease. In my environment I set the lease time to 5 minutes, so I notice such things rather soon. I looked on the dhcp server side but saw any further dhcp messages come in from the client side. Related bugs: * bug 1551415: systemctl stop networking hang / timeout ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: isc-dhcp-client 4.3.3-5ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9.24-generic 4.4.3 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Feb 29 12:32:52 2016 DhclientLeases: SourcePackage: isc-dhcp UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bind9/+bug/1551351/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
