Re: dhcp client support broken on karmic with latest NM build

[Torsten Spindler <torsten canonical com>]

Hello Alessandro,

the latest network-manager needs dhclient version 4, Ubuntu only ships
version 3. I tried to compile network-manager with the options
--with-dhclient=no --with-dhcpcd=yes
but it still seems to want to use dhclient. As a test I packaged
dhclient version 4 and it seems to work. Albeit packaging it properly is
beyond my debian packaging capabilities ...

Regards,
Torsten

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 14:04 +0100, Alessandro Bono wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Today my machine it's not able to take an ip from either wifi or
> ethernet, looking at log there is this message
> 
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne NetworkManager: Activation (eth0) Beginning DHCPv4 transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2                              
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient: Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.                            
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient: All rights reserved.                                                        
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/                          
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient: Usage: dhclient [-1dqrx] [-nw] [-p <port>] [-s server]                      
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient:                 [-cf config-file] [-lf lease-file][-pf pid-file] [-e VAR=val]
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne dhclient:                 [-sf script-file] [interface]                                
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  dhclient started with pid 8817                                 
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Get) scheduled...
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.  
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Get) started...  
> Feb 25 10:08:41 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Get) complete.   
> 
> 
> so seems that yesterday update broke dhcp support
> 
> 
> ii  network-manager                                0.8-0ubuntu4~nmt4~karmic                                   network management framework daemon
> ii  network-manager-dev                            0.8-0ubuntu4~nmt4~karmic                                   network management framework (development fi
> ii  network-manager-gnome                          0.8-0ubuntu3~nmt2~karmic                                   network management framework (GNOME frontend
> ii  network-manager-openconnect                    0.8~rc1-0ubuntu1~nm1~karmic                                network management framework (Openconnect pl
> ii  network-manager-openvpn                        0.8~rc1-0ubuntu1~nm1~karmic                                network management framework (OpenVPN plugin
> ii  network-manager-pptp                           0.8-0ubuntu2~nmt1~karmic                                   network management framework (PPTP plugin)
> ii  network-manager-strongswan                     1.1.1-2ubuntu1                                             network management framework (strongSwan plu
> ii  network-manager-vpnc                           0.8-0ubuntu2~nmt1~karmic                                   network management framework (VPNC plugin)
> 
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