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

[Alessandro Bono <alessandro bono gmail com>]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:53 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 14:15 +0100, Torsten Spindler wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Those options no longer have an effect, support for *both* is included
> at runtime and switchable via configuration.  You have three options:
> 
> 1) Set IPv6 to "ignore" for that connection, at which point DHCPv6 won't
> run if the RA told NM to do so
> 2) Get dhclient v4, which has been out for years
> 3) Set the 'dhcp' property in the [main] section of
> nm-system-settings.conf to either "dhclient" or "dhcpcd"
> 
Hi Dan

I tried with the 3 option but NM not find dhcpcd and exit with error

Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  modem-manager is now available
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: init!
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_system_hostname
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager:    SCPluginIfupdown: management mode: unmanaged
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/net/eth0, iface: eth0)
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/net/eth0, iface: eth0): no ifupdown configuration found.
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:10:00.0/net/wlan0, iface: wlan0)
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:10:00.0/net/wlan0, iface: wlan0): no ifupdown configuration found.
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo)
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo): no ifupdown configuration found.
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: end _init.
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager: Loaded plugin ifupdown: (C) 2008 Canonical Ltd.  To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc.  To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  Found wlan radio killswitch rfkill1 (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:10:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill1) (driver <unknown>)
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager: <WARN>  main(): Failed to start the DHCP manager: unknown or missing DHCP client 'dhcpcd'.
Feb 26 10:30:31 champagne NetworkManager: <info>  exiting (error)



ii  dhcp3-client                                   3.1.2-1ubuntu7.1                                           DHCP client
ii  dhcp3-common                                   3.1.2-1ubuntu7.1                                           common files used by all the dhcp3* packages
ii  dhcpcd                                         1:3.2.3-3ubuntu1                                           DHCP client for automatically configuring IP

sandro champagne:~$ which dhcpcd
/sbin/dhcpcd


root champagne:/home/sandro# cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
# This file is installed into /etc/NetworkManager, and is loaded by
# NetworkManager by default.  To override, specify: '--config file'
# during NM startup.  This can be done by appending to DAEMON_OPTS in
# the file:
#
# /etc/default/NetworkManager
#

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

dhcp=dhcpcd

no-auto-default=00:1a:4b:7a:9d:98,

[ifupdown]
managed=false




> Note that with dhcpcd you won't be able to do DHCPv6 either since I
> don't think it supports that.
> 
> Dan
>  
> 
> > 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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Cordiali Saluti
Alessandro Bono