Re: Failing dhcp

[Jason Vas Dias <jvdias redhat com>]

Hi Theetjuh - 

I suspect that your dhcp is compiled to use different paths than
dhcdbd is expecting.

dhcdbd depends on the file /var/run/dhclient-$IF.pid file being
created by dhclient, for example, and dhclient needs the 
/var/lib/dhclient/ directory. Check that the paths in dhcdbd.h
match with the paths used by your dhclient.

All I know is that the system works fine on RedHat FC-4 / FC-5 -
I have no Slackware system on which to test. If you cannot 
debug what is going on with your customized versions of 
dhcp and dhcdbd on Slackware, consider upgrading to FC-4 / FC-5 . 

Regards,
Jason

On Friday 04 November 2005 14:04, Theetjuh wrote:
> Haven't heard about this anymore ... any progress ?
> 
> On 10/25/05, Theetjuh <theetjuh gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> >
> > I'm running Slackware 10.2 with 2.6.13 kernel
> >
> > I build all my packages from source, with the following patches from
> > Gentopia (which i attached), cause those would build right:
> >
> > dhcp:
> > dhcp-3.0.2-extended_option_environment.patch
> > dhcp-3.0.2-dhclient-no_isc_blurb.patch
> > dhcp-3.0.2-dhclient_nodelay.patch
> > dhcp-3.0.2-dhclient_decline_backoff.patch
> > dhcp-3.0.2-dhclient_script_fast+arping-1.patch
> > dhcp-3.0.2-dhclient-script-dbus-dhcdbd.patch
> > dhcp-3.0.2-slackware-ify.patch
> > dhclient-ntp.patch
> >
> > dhcdbd:
> > dhcdbd-1.9-slackware-ify.patch
> >
> > networkmanager:
> > networkmanager-slackware-ify.patch
> >
> > On 10/25/05, Jason Vas Dias <jvdias redhat com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Theetjuh -
> > >
> > > What OS are you using ?
> > >
> > > Is there any reason why you can't download the latest NetworkManager
> > > source rpms and dependencies:
> > >
> > > ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/NetworkManager-0.5.1-2.src.rpm
> > > ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/dhcdbd-1.9-1.src.rpm
> > >
> > >
> > > ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/dhclient-3.0.3-10.src.rpm
> > >
> > > ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/bind-9.3.1-20.src.rpm
> > >
> > > ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/dbus-0.50-1.src.rpm
> > >
> > > And simply rebuild them with 'rpmbuild --rebuild $srcrpm' ?
> > >
> > > > > Oct 22 14:30:51 poseidon dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium
> > > > > DHCP Client V3.0.3
> > >
> > > This shows you are not running the Red Hat patched dhclient, whose
> > > version string
> > > would be :
> > > DHCP Client V3.0.3-RedHat
> > >
> > > > > Oct 22 14:30:51 poseidon dhclient:
> > > > > Oct 22 14:30:51 poseidon dhcdbd: Unrequested down ?:3
> > >
> > > dhclient has exited abnormally, perhaps because it does not recognize
> > > the '-x'
> > > option, support for which is provided by the Red Hat dhclient patches -
> > > specifically,
> > > 'dhcp-3.0.2-extended_option_environment.patch' . You can stop dhcdbd
> > > supplying the -x
> > > option by compiling dhcdbd with -DDHCLIENT_EXTENDED_OPTION_ENVIRONMENT=0
> > > , but then
> > > it will be unable to handle user-defined DHCP options.
> > >
> > > > > And this in /var/log/syslog:
> > > > > Oct 22 14:30:51 poseidon dhclient: eth0: not found
> > >
> > > Since eth0 was not configured, dhcdbd has no record of it .
> > >
> > > > > Oct 22 14:31:29 poseidon NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I ():
> > > > > nm_spawn_process('/etc/rc.d/rc.howl restart'): could not spawn
> > > > > process. (Failed to execute child process
> > > > > "/etc/rc.d/rc.howl" (No such file or directory))
> > >
> > > NetworkManager depends on howl ? Perhaps you should consider installing
> > > howl:
> > > ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/howl-0.9.8-4.src.rpm
> > >
> > >
> > > > > Oct 22 14:31:43 poseidon NetworkManager: compute_nameservers:
> > > > > assertion `config != NULL' failed
> > > > >
> > >
> > > It looks like you may be missing some NetworkManager patches also.
> > >
> > > I strongly suggest just rebuilding from the latest src rpms .
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jason Vas Dias
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Greetz
> > Theetjuh
> >
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Greetz
> Theetjuh
>