/sbin/dhclient3 remains after all dhcp3 packages purged
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ifupdown (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
isc-dhcp (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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isc-dhcp (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After upgrading from maverick to natty, I purged all dhcp3 packages since they were replaced with version 4 packages:
% aptitude search '?source-
p dhcp3-client - ISC DHCP server (transitional package)
p dhcp3-common - ISC DHCP common files (transitional package)
p dhcp3-dev - ISC DHCP development files (transitional package)
p dhcp3-relay - ISC DHCP relay (transitional package)
p dhcp3-server - ISC DHCP server (transitional package)
i A isc-dhcp-client - ISC DHCP client
p isc-dhcp-client-dbg - ISC DHCP client (debugging symbols)
i A isc-dhcp-common - common files used by all the isc-dhcp* packages
p isc-dhcp-dev - API for accessing and modifying the DHCP server and client state
p isc-dhcp-relay - ISC DHCP relay daemon
p isc-dhcp-relay-dbg - DHCP relay daemon (debugging symbols)
i isc-dhcp-server - ISC DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment
p isc-dhcp-server-dbg - ISC DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment (debug)
p isc-dhcp-
However, /sbin/dhclient3 still remains, owned by the isc-dhcp-client package:
% dpkg-query --search /sbin/dhclient3
isc-dhcp-client: /sbin/dhclient3
% file /sbin/dhclient3
/sbin/dhclient3: symbolic link to `dhclient'
I think it is wrong that isc-dhcp-client version four is providing a dhclient3 file.
It is a problem because ifupdown first checks for dhclient3 and runs that, using a lease directory option of /var/lib/dhcp3. This is a problem if you remove dhcp3 directories.
Also, the Debian isc-dhcp-client package does not contain the /sbin/dhclient3 symlink. This bug may be relevant: http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: isc-dhcp-client 4.1.1-P1-15ubuntu9
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 21 01:52:00 2011
DhclientLeases:
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/sh
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: isc-dhcp
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-16 (5 days ago)
Related branches
Changed in isc-dhcp (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in ifupdown (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in isc-dhcp (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Committed |
Changed in isc-dhcp (Debian): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in ifupdown (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in isc-dhcp (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Quoted part of this bug's description in Bug #799136 comments, wonder whether it should be marked as dupe of this.