Your message dated Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:31:09 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1143544: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #564516, regarding dhcp3-client: weird conflict with samba/resolvconf when shutting down to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dhcp3-client Version: 3.1.3-2 Severity: normal Hi! Basically, I see 3 problems: ifdown eth1 seems to kill and restart dhclient for some reason, dhclient seems to be killed before deconfiguring interfaces, and during shutdown dhclient reloads samba but it's already stopped and it should't even try to call invoke-rc.d at this time. Additional versions: samba 2:3.4.3-2, resolvconf 1.45, dnsmasq 2.51-1, ifupdown 0.6.9. All affected packages are default installs, eth1 is the uplink ("iface eth1 inet dhcp"), eth0 is a lan with dnsmasq and samba on it. I'm using the dependency based init system. When starting up, /etc/resolv.conf is empty, then when eth1 comes up, it is the DNS of my ISP, then when dnsmasq comes up, it becomes 127.0.0.1 and dnsmasq will use the ISP's DNS, all thanks to resolvconf's magic. The first weird thing is that when I do "ifdown eth1", it starts with some warning: ===== There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 4260 killed old client process, removed PID file Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3 Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth1/00:04:e2:9f:9e:0f Sending on LPF/eth1/00:04:e2:9f:9e:0f Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf: smbd only. root@wicklow:~# ===== Also notice that samba is automatically reloaded. Now the real problem comes when shutting down, looks like multiple problems: dhclient is killed before ifdown-ing, hence the stale warning, then the samba reloading kicks in, which seems to happen at the wrong time: ===== ... Saving the system clock. Deconfiguring network interfaces...There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid 1410 removed stale PID file Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3 ... DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 invoke-rc.d: ==================================================== invoke-rc.d: WARNING: invoke-rc.d called during shutdown sequence invoke-rc.d: enabling safe mode: initscript policy layer disabled invoke-rc.d: ==================================================== Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf: smbd onlyNo process in pidfile '/var/run/samba/smbd.pid' found running: none killed. . done. Cleaning up ifupdown... Deactivating swap...done. ... ===== Also note that it all doesn't seem dangerous, just very ugly, but still, something is definitely wrong here. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dhcp3-client depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 3.2.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dhcp3-common 3.1.3-2 common files used by all the dhcp3 ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dhcp3-client recommends no packages. Versions of packages dhcp3-client suggests: pn avahi-autoipd <none> (no description available) ii resolvconf 1.45 name server information handler -- debconf information: dhcp3-client/dhclient-needs-restarting: dhcp3-client/dhclient-script_moved:
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 4.4.3-P1-8+rm Dear submitter, as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1143544 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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