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regarding network-manager: Mesh support: syntax error in dhclient config
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: normal
The config file NetworkManager passes to dhclient when using mesh support is
invalid:
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> Activation (msh0) Stage 3 of
5 (IP Configure Start) started...
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> (msh0): device state change:
5 -> 7 (reason 0)
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> Activation (msh0) Beginning
DHCP transaction (timeout in 20 se
conds)
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client
V3.1.3
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems
Consortium.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: All rights reserved.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: For info, please visit
https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient:
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: /var/run/nm-dhclient-msh0.conf line 55:
semicolon expected.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> dhclient started with pid 3045
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> Activation (msh0) Stage 4 of
5 (IP6 Configure Get) scheduled..
.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> Activation (msh0) Stage 3 of
5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> Activation (msh0) Stage 4 of
5 (IP6 Configure Get) started...
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: anycast-mac ethernet
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: ^
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: /var/run/nm-dhclient-msh0.conf line 56:
semicolon expected.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: }
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: ^
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: /var/run/nm-dhclient-msh0.conf line 56:
unterminated interface declaration.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: }
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: ^
I've attached a copy of /var/run/nm-dhclient-msh0.conf.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.9-xo-bine-nfs-14-00635-gb8b8a75-dirty (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups
ii dbus 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii dhcp3-client 3.1.3-2 DHCP client
ii ifupdown 0.6.10 high level tools to configure netw
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.84-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnutls26 2.8.5-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgudev-1.0-0 151-3 GObject-based wrapper library for
ii libnl1 1.1-5 library for dealing with netlink s
ii libnm-glib2 0.8-1 network management framework (GLib
ii libnm-util1 0.8-1 network management framework (shar
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.96-1 PolicyKit Authorization API
ii libuuid1 2.16.2-0 Universally Unique ID library
ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii udev 151-3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii wpasupplicant 0.6.10-2 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii dnsmasq-base 2.52-1 A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii iptables 1.4.6-2 administration tools for packet fi
ii modemmanager 0.3-2 D-Bus service for managing modems
pn network-manager-gnome | ne <none> (no description available)
ii policykit-1 0.96-1 framework for managing administrat
ii ppp 2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da
Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn avahi-autoipd <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
# Created by NetworkManager
# Merged from /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
# Configuration file for /sbin/dhclient, which is included in Debian's
# dhcp3-client package.
#
# This is a sample configuration file for dhclient. See dhclient.conf's
# man page for more information about the syntax of this file
# and a more comprehensive list of the parameters understood by
# dhclient.
#
# Normally, if the DHCP server provides reasonable information and does
# not leave anything out (like the domain name, for example), then
# few changes must be made to this file, if any.
#
option rfc3442-classless-static-routes code 121 = array of unsigned integer 8;
#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";
#send dhcp-client-identifier 1:0:a0:24:ab:fb:9c;
#send dhcp-lease-time 3600;
#supersede domain-name "fugue.com home.vix.com";
#prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
domain-name, domain-name-servers, domain-search, host-name,
netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu,
rfc3442-classless-static-routes, ntp-servers;
#require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
#timeout 60;
#retry 60;
#reboot 10;
#select-timeout 5;
#initial-interval 2;
#script "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script";
#media "-link0 -link1 -link2", "link0 link1";
#reject 192.33.137.209;
#alias {
# interface "eth0";
# fixed-address 192.5.5.213;
# option subnet-mask 255.255.255.255;
#}
#lease {
# interface "eth0";
# fixed-address 192.33.137.200;
# medium "link0 link1";
# option host-name "andare.swiftmedia.com";
# option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
# option broadcast-address 192.33.137.255;
# option routers 192.33.137.250;
# option domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
# renew 2 2000/1/12 00:00:01;
# rebind 2 2000/1/12 00:00:01;
# expire 2 2000/1/12 00:00:01;
#}
interface "msh0" {
initial-interval 1;
anycast-mac ethernet c0:27:c0:27:c0:00;
}
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.58.0-1
dhclient support was removed upstream in 1.58.0, making this bug report
obsolete. Thus closing.
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:21:19 +0000 Sascha Silbe
<[email protected]> wrote:
Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: normal
The config file NetworkManager passes to dhclient when using mesh support is
invalid:
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> Activation (msh0) Stage 3 of
5 (IP Configure Start) started...
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> (msh0): device state change: 5
-> 7 (reason 0)
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> Activation (msh0) Beginning
DHCP transaction (timeout in 20 se
conds)
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client
V3.1.3
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems
Consortium.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: All rights reserved.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: For info, please visit
https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient:
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: /var/run/nm-dhclient-msh0.conf line 55: semicolon expected.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> dhclient started with pid 3045
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> Activation (msh0) Stage 4 of
5 (IP6 Configure Get) scheduled..
.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> Activation (msh0) Stage 3 of
5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha NetworkManager: <info> Activation (msh0) Stage 4 of
5 (IP6 Configure Get) started...
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: anycast-mac ethernet
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: ^
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: /var/run/nm-dhclient-msh0.conf line 56:
semicolon expected.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: }
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: ^
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: /var/run/nm-dhclient-msh0.conf line 56:
unterminated interface declaration.
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: }
Mar 31 18:16:05 xo-sascha dhclient: ^
I've attached a copy of /var/run/nm-dhclient-msh0.conf.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.9-xo-bine-nfs-14-00635-gb8b8a75-dirty (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups
ii dbus 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii dhcp3-client 3.1.3-2 DHCP client
ii ifupdown 0.6.10 high level tools to configure netw
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.84-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnutls26 2.8.5-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgudev-1.0-0 151-3 GObject-based wrapper library for
ii libnl1 1.1-5 library for dealing with netlink s
ii libnm-glib2 0.8-1 network management framework (GLib
ii libnm-util1 0.8-1 network management framework (shar
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