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

[Alessandro Bono <alessandro bono gmail com>]

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 23:11 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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
> 
> If you can reproduce this at all, are you familiar with the trick to log
> the arguments that a program is called with by moving it and replacing
> the original path with a short script that echoes the arguments to a
> file then runs the original program?  I'm very curious why the IPv4 bits
> here failed; they shouldn't.

Hi Dan

I think you want dhclient arguments

-d -4 -sf /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action -pf /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient-7ee3e5ee-deb8-46e7-9440-86db49cfdcdd-eth0.lease -cf /var/run/nm-dhclient-eth0.conf eth0



> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> > 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