alt installer looping, dhcp request every second
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dhcp3 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
alt installer is trying to shut down. not sure why it didn't finish and reboot, but instead gave me a menu. I picked "Finish the installation" but nothing happened. looking at syslog and my dhcpserver logs, I see it is looping doing a dhcp requests every second,
and erroring: Jan 30 12:50:16 dhclient: dhclient.c(2138): null pointer
Jan 30 06:44:40 debconf: Adding [MENU] -> [Choose language, Configure the keyboard, Detect network hardware, Configure the network, Download debconf preconfiguration file, Choose a mirror of the Ubuntu archive, Download installer components, Configure
Jan 30 06:44:40 debconf: <-- 0
Jan 30 06:44:40 main-menu[1516]: INFO: no default menu item
Jan 30 06:44:40 debconf: --> GET debconf/priority
Jan 30 06:44:40 debconf: <-- 0 high
Jan 30 06:44:40 main-menu[1516]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'high' to 'medium'
Jan 30 06:44:40 debconf: --> SET debconf/priority medium
Jan 30 06:44:40 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium
Jan 30 06:44:40 debconf: <-- 0 value set
Jan 30 06:44:40 debconf: --> INPUT medium debian-
Jan 30 06:44:40 debconf: <-- 0 question will be asked
Jan 30 06:44:40 debconf: --> GO
Jan 30 10:52:46 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.127 on eth0 to 192.168.1.7 port 67
...
Jan 30 12:50:14 dhclient: DHCPACK of 192.168.1.186 from 192.168.1.7
Jan 30 12:50:14 dhclient: dhclient.c(2138): null pointer
Jan 30 12:50:14 dhclient: DHCPDECLINE on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Jan 30 12:50:14 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
Jan 30 12:50:15 dhclient: DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.191 from 192.168.1.7
Jan 30 12:50:15 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.191 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Jan 30 12:50:15 dhclient: DHCPACK of 192.168.1.191 from 192.168.1.7
Jan 30 12:50:15 dhclient: dhclient.c(2138): null pointer
Jan 30 12:50:15 dhclient: DHCPDECLINE on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Jan 30 12:50:15 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Jan 30 12:50:16 dhclient: DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.128 from 192.168.1.7
Jan 30 12:50:16 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.128 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Jan 30 12:50:16 dhclient: DHCPACK of 192.168.1.128 from 192.168.1.7
Jan 30 12:50:16 dhclient: dhclient.c(2138): null pointer
Jan 30 12:50:16 dhclient: DHCPDECLINE on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Jan 30 12:50:16 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Confirm same problem with the installer from ubuntu- 8.10-alternate- powepc+ ps3.iso, it happens when one re-runs Detect network settings, which fails.
The bug appears to be same/similar as 2004 Redhat https:/ /bugzilla. redhat. com/show_ bug.cgi? id=136123 "Bug 136123 - dhclient never gets lease though one is offered", there is mention of a patch there