tag 178885 patch thanks Hi Eloy!
Since some users and also I often end up with multiple instances of
dhclient at the same interface, I took a stab at it:
dhcp3 (3.0.1-2ubuntu7) breezy; urgency=low
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* Added debian/patches/dhclient-running_stale_pids.patch:
- Always check for an already existing PID file, not only in release mode.
- Remove the PID also if the previous process does not exist any more
(stale PID file).
- Added some log_info() statements.
- This should now make it really hard to get multiple clients for the same
interface at the same time. (related to Debian #178885)
The patch is at
http://patches.ubuntu.com/patches/dhcp3.client-running_stale_pids.diff
(Not a debdiff this time, but a proper patch for debian/patches.)
Now the client is much more robust. Can you please forward this
upstream? This problem seems to be rather non-distribution specific.
Thanks for considering and have a nice day!
Martin
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