Comment 1 for bug 431051

I've investigated the issue around the wierd PID value:

    There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 134519072

This turns out to be an issue with dhclient on hardy. I am not seeing the same thing with jaunty.

Reproducing this:

     sudo dhclient badiface0

creates a /var/run/dhclient.pid file of zero length. Then,

     sudo dhclient eth0

runs dhclient with reads the empty PID file as 134519072.

This doesn't cause a problem so I'm ignoring it.