Jaunty - Can't get dhcp IP address

[Fabio Marzocca]

After this morning's update, I cannot get anymore the DHCP address from my network.

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fabio@fabio-laptop:~ $ sudo dhclient
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Can't create addrlist socket
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Versions installed:
ii dhcp3-client 3.1.1-5ubuntu8 DHCP client
ii dhcp3-common 3.1.1-5ubuntu8 common files used by all the dhcp3* packages

I got the connection only with static IP setting.

[Corsaire (stranche)]

Not sure if directly related, but I experienced too nasty trouble with DHCP on 9.04.

culprit is AppArmor that is configured too stricly for the 'dhclient' executable to run properly, even being root you can't obtain a working config

I had to use the following workaroud :

ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/sbin.dhclient3 /etc/apparmor.d/disable/
apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/sbin.dhclient3

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we can't fix it because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem. We have instructions on debugging some types of problems at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures.
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[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!