Missing /var/lib/dhcp3 directory

[Cosmin L]

In a clean Ubuntu 11.10 server install, dhclient3 is run with a configuration parameter that instructs it to write lease files in the "/var/lib/dhcp3". That directory is missing in the install, thus no lease file is written.

# ps ax | grep dhclient3 | grep -v grep
  665 ? Ss 0:00 dhclient3 -e IF_METRIC=100 -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases -1 eth0

# ls -l /var/lib/ | grep dhcp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-12-30 16:24 dhcp

(no dhcp3 dir!)

# ls -l /var/lib/dhcp/
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-12-30 16:24 dhclient.leases

# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.10"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Clark Wierda (cbwierda)]

Creating the /var/lib/dhcp3 directory does fix the problem, but this needs to be fixed in the install.

What should the correct result be?
1) Create /var/lib/dhcp3
2) Change the target in the start script

[Clark Wierda (cbwierda)]

I hit this error with a from scratch install of Kubuntu 11.10 using the AMD64 Alternate Install CD.

[Cosmin L (lcosmin)]

I believe the Debian package uses /var/lib/dhcp ; maybe it should be the same in Ubuntu.

[Clark Wierda (cbwierda)]

You are correct and that is the answer.

I found a duplicate for this issue (Bug #900234 ).

The root cause is in the call from ifupdown and has been addressed there. I hope it makes it into Precise.