Re: Hanging during boot-up following dbus upgrade

[cody chamberlain <cham0169@d.umn.edu>]

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 19:55 +0000, John Halton wrote:
>                              From: 
> John Halton <johnhalton@gmail.com>
>                                To: 
> debian-user
> <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>                           Subject: 
> Re: Hanging during boot-up
> following dbus upgrade
>                              Date: 
> Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:55:42 +0000
> (13:55 CST)
> 
> 
> cody chamberlain wrote:
> > I am experiencing a similar problem. Mine isn't during boot,
> however,
> > because my iface is set to no auto. When I 'ifup eth0' or 'eth1' it
> > hangs after:
> > 
> > bound to 192.168.1.67 -- renewal in 300 seconds.
> > 
> > If I wait long enough, it closes itself. However, if I jsut close
> the
> > terminal, the ip address was apparenlty bound. I had assumed this
> was a
> > bug in the dhcp client.
> > 
> > Interesting...
> 
> Very helpful - thanks for this. I just reproduced what you describe
> in 
> your email using "ifup eth0", so that's clearly where the problem
> lies.
> Is it more likely to be a bug in dhcp-client, or in the ifupdown
> package 
> itself? 

i am not too sure. when you do an ifconfig, what does it show as your ip
address. for some reason mine is showing up as 169 address. however my
connection is working fine. 

bizarre.