Ubuntu
dhcp3 package

  1. Bug #33968
  2. Comment #87

Comment 87 for bug 33968

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Erichwtl (erichwtl) wrote :

I too have this error in my /var/log/syslog
I fixed the issue with the following method:

> su -
> touch /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases
> chown dhcp /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases

I believe the dchpclient didn't have access to create the file in that location, so you needed to create the file, I used the "touch" command, and then gave the file ownership to the user "dhcp" which is trying to write to the file.