Package: ifupdown Version: 0.8.32 Severity: normal In BSD, I can interrupt a running dhclient by pressing ^C or, at least, ^\. This is not possible in Debian which really makes it not fun if you have bad network, like WLAN.
I almost reported this as a bug against dhclient, but Nik pointed out that I *can* actually ^C dhclient when called manually, just not when it was started by ifup. -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/network/interfaces: /usr/share/bug/ifupdown[15]: cat: /etc/network/interfaces: Permission denied /usr/share/bug/ifupdown[41]: can't open /etc/network/interfaces: Permission denied --- up and down scripts installed: /etc/network/if-down.d: total 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 372 Mar 17 2014 openvpn -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 800 Jan 9 2017 postfix lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 7 15:32 wpasupplicant -> ../../wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh /etc/network/if-post-down.d: total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Apr 27 12:59 avahi-daemon -> ../if-up.d/avahi-daemon lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Apr 8 23:06 bridge -> /lib/bridge-utils/ifupdown.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1409 Mar 24 2016 wireless-tools lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 7 15:32 wpasupplicant -> ../../wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh /etc/network/if-pre-up.d: total 16 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Apr 8 23:06 bridge -> /lib/bridge-utils/ifupdown.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 344 Apr 28 2012 ethtool -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137 Aug 16 2016 uml-utilities -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4178 Mar 24 2016 wireless-tools lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 7 15:32 wpasupplicant -> ../../wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh /etc/network/if-up.d: total 40 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 484 Mar 6 2013 avahi-daemon -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1685 Sep 22 2014 ethtool -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4958 Jun 8 2014 mountnfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Dec 21 2014 ntpdate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 224 Jan 30 2015 openntpd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 972 Mar 30 2017 openssh-server -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 385 Jul 7 2015 openvpn -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1117 Jan 9 2017 postfix -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 261 Nov 5 2011 uml-utilities lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 7 15:32 wpasupplicant -> ../../wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages ifupdown depends on: ii adduser 3.117 ii iproute2 4.16.0-3 ii libc6 2.27-3 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 Versions of packages ifupdown recommends: ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client] 4.3.5-4 Versions of packages ifupdown suggests: ii ppp 2.4.7-2+2 pn rdnssd <none> -- no debconf information
