Bug#219392: netcfg-dhcp succeeds although no lease was acquired

To: Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>, 219392@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#219392: netcfg-dhcp succeeds although no lease was acquired
From: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 05:29:34 -0800
Message-id: <[🔎] 20031106132934.GA280@catalunya>
Reply-to: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>, 219392@bugs.debian.org
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tag 219392 pending
thanks

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:48:12AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> If the computer has a network device and is connected to a network, but
> there is no dhcp server on this net, then netcfg-dhcp succeeds although
> no lease is acquired. ps shows, that the dhcp-client process is still
> running afterwards. I suspect that the dhcp-client simply goes into the
> background when it does not acquire a lease after several seconds and
> does not return an error code.

Fixed in CVS by passing -e to dhclient.

-- 
Matt

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