Bug#231635: debian-installer: surviving dhclient prevents static IP (re-)configuration

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>]

reassign 231635 netcfg
Thanks

Am Son, den 08.02.2004 schrieb Marc Herbert um 00:58:
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: N/A; reported 2004-02-08
> Severity: normal
> 
> In the default debconf priority, the installer eagerly graps a DHCP lease
> without asking the user. If the user is not happy with this and wants to
> go back and manually configure the network, then network re-configuration
> silently fails.
> 
> My guess: this may come from a surviving DHCP client.
Could you please try to confirm this. you can switch to the second
console and execute "ps" in a shell. The netcfg module has code to kill
a running dhcp client before reconfiguring the network, but it could be
that this fails.
The dhcp client is probably named "udhcp".

Thanks Gaudenz