Package: dhcp3-client Version: 3.0.5-3 Severity: normal dhclient3 had stopped bringing the network up a few months ago, although going back to stable's dhcp3-client (from January) doesn't fix this, so I suspect it could be something to do with udev, hotplug, netenv or something else, although I have reached the end of my debugging ability.
With /etc/network/interfaces as follows: #### # /etc/network/interfaces autogenerated by netenv Sun Jul 1 20:25:46 EST 2007 # old /etc/network/interfaces backup as /etc/network/interfaces.pre-netenv auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp #### Optionally, same results if that file contains also the following -- hotplug has changed recently, and I don't know what implications this will have): #### mapping hotplug script echo #### With the above choices of /etc/network/interfaces, when dhclient3 is run, I get the following (this log was from stable's 3.0.4, but same under current unstable's V3.0.5): Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b5:4b:6e:eb Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b5:4b:6e:eb Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 192.231.166.47 port 67 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b5:4b:6e:eb Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b5:4b:6e:eb Sending on Socket/fallback receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 send_packet: Network is down DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 send_packet: Network is down The debug file just gives the following: Sun Jul 1 20:27:16 EST 2007: entering dhclient-enter-hooks.d, dumping variables. reason='PREINIT' interface='eth0' medium='' alias_ip_address='' new_ip_address='' new_subnet_mask='' new_domain_name='' new_domain_name_servers='' new_routers='' new_static_routes='' old_ip_address='' old_subnet_mask='' old_domain_name='' old_domain_name_servers='' old_routers='' old_static_routes='' Now, I just discovered that I can get dhcp to work if I bring up the interface manually, and then later add a default route: # killall dhclient3 # ifconfig eth0 up # dhclient3 There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 30950 removed stale PID file Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.5 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b5:4b:6e:eb Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b5:4b:6e:eb Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 DHCPOFFER from 192.231.166.47 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.231.166.47 bound to 192.231.166.113 -- renewal in 85817 seconds. # route add default eth0 That gives me a functional system, but what has changed? -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dhcp3-client depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.22 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dhcp3-common 3.0.5-3 common files used by all the dhcp3 ii libc6 2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dhcp3-client recommends no packages. -- debconf information: dhcp3-client/dhclient-needs-restarting: dhcp3-client/dhclient-script_moved: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
