Your message dated Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:04:04 -0500
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and subject line Re: ifupdown: invokes dhclient incorrectly
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regarding ifupdown invokes dhclient incorrectly
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Package: isc-dhcp-client
Version: 4.1.0-1
Severity: important
*** Please type your report below this line ***
dhclient provided with isc-dhcp-client 4.1.0-1 can't handle the default
pid file name used when using ifup.
# ifup eth0
/var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid: interface name too long (is 26)
My interfaces file:
# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
I can get eth0 up by manually running "dhclient eth0" or using a really
short name for the -pf option.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers experimental
APT policy: (999, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client depends on:
ii debianutils 3.2.1 Miscellaneous utilities
specific t
ii ifupdown 0.7~alpha3 high level tools to
configure netw
ii isc-dhcp-common 4.1.0-1 common files used by all
the isc-d
ii libc6 2.10.1-0exp1 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8k-5 SSL shared libraries
isc-dhcp-client recommends no packages.
Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client suggests:
pn avahi-autoipd <none> (no description available)
pn resolvconf <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.7~alpha4
Andrew Pollock wrote:
> It's passing a spurious -e to dhclient, which should normally be accompanied
> by
> a VAR=value pair, but is not. This confuses dhclient's option parser, and it
> thinks the penultimate argument is the interface name (which is is not) and
> falls afoul of internal buffer-overflow checking.
>
> The -e option needs to be removed.
Thanks for catching and fixing this, and thanks to the other Andrew
for merging the fix to experimental at long last.
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep ifupdown
ifupdown hold
$ echo ifupdown install | su -c 'dpkg --set-selections'
Happily,
Jonathan
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