Bug#231635: debian-installer: surviving dhclient prevents static IP (re-)configuration
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > 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.
I already did ! It was a "strong" guess :-)
> The netcfg module has code to kill
> a running dhcp client before reconfiguring the network, but it could
> be that this fails.
It seems so for sure.
> The dhcp client is probably named "udhcp".
It was not "udhcp" ! We may have something here. I had: "dhclient",
just like in the subject of the bugreport.
Note: I was using netboot.initrd from ~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/,
dated from the initial bugreport, and then downloading from
"unstable".
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