** Also affects: wicd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: wicd (Debian)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Attachment added: "syslog snippit"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/wicd/+bug/948676/+attachment/3349174/+files/syslog
** Description changed:
wicd 1.7.1 (bzr-r717)
wireless (and wired) connection daemon.
- For each connection attempt I make through wicd-curses, a seperate
+ For each connection attempt I make through wicd-curses, a separate
dhclient is opened. Each dhclient remains open until I explicitly
perform kill -9. Even calling /etc/rc.d/wicd stop leaves these
processes running each continuing to hammer dhcp.
To resolve this issue I added the following to
/etc/wicd/scripts/(pre/post)connect
#!/bin/sh
kill -9 `ps -eP | grep -i dhclient | cut -f 1,2 -d ' '`
Before this fix action I was constantly disconnecting from Wireless,
- after it seems to be stable so far.
+ afterwards it seems to be stable so far.
Attached wicd.log
+
+ I have experienced this on multiple distros and hardware, including
+ systems belonging to associates.
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Title:
wicd-curses opens dhclient per connection attempt
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