----- Original Message -----
| On Jan 04 12:05:53, jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote:
| > I just tried to use the latest amd64 snapshot to prepare for an
| > upgrade to our firewall.  We use DHCP during initial installation
| > to PXE boot and perform the install at which point we configure
| > through site52.tgz.  However, during installation and after boot
| > DHCP reports the following error
| > 
| >   Cannot lstat() '/var/db/dhclient.leases.bge0': No such file or
| >   directory
| > 
| > it does this for all interfaces and DHCP fails to configure the
| > interface.  This does not happen with 5.2-RELEASE.
| 
| I've had the same problem with this snapshot.
| Simply escaping to shell and doing
| 
|       > /var/db/dhclient.leases.bge0
|       dhclient bge0
| 
| solved that.

Yes, I am aware of that, but it doesn't work by default and that doesn't help 
if you reboot and you are not at the console.  It's a bug and so I am reporting 
it. ;)

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James A. Peltier
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