Seeing this on a new 8.04 Server install. Given Martin said it needs
info so long ago I'm changing it back to confirmed in the hope there's
since been enough info. Here's mine; it's just got eth0 and lo
interfaces.
$ cd /var/lib/dhcp3
$ ls -la
total 8
k drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-30 23:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2008-05-27 16:40 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-04-30 23:30 dhclient.leases
$
$ p=`pidof dhclient3`
$ ps lww $p
F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
1 101 4014 1 18 -2 2340 820 - S<s ? 0:00
dhclient3 -e IF_METRIC=100 -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf
/var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases eth0
$
$ sudo cat /proc/$p/status
Name: dhclient3
State: S (sleeping)
Tgid: 4014
Pid: 4014
PPid: 1
TracerPid: 0
Uid: 101 101 101 101
Gid: 102 102 102 102
FDSize: 32
Groups:
VmPeak: 2344 kB
...
$
$ getent passwd 101
dhcp:x:101:102::/nonexistent:/bin/false
$ getent group 102
dhcp:x:102:
$
dhcp3-3.0.6.dfsg/debian/dhcp3-client.postinst creates dhclient.leases
without any embedded interface name:
if [ ! -e /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.leases ]; then
if test -e /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases; then
cp /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.leases
else
touch /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.leases
fi
fi
dhcp3-3.0.6.dfsg/debian/dhcp3-client.postrm doesn't handle removing
dhclient.eth0.leases on a purge:
# Remove lease database
rm -f /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.leases*
ifconfig(8) only lists eth0 and lo interfaces.
I can't spot what's starting dhclient3 for an interface, e.g. eth0, but
whatever it is that's doing so and is passing those `dhclient.$iface.*'
parameters shown above is the cause of the problem. And it also looks
like the source debian/* files need to know this can now happen, for
installation and purging.
** Changed in: dhcp3 (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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(Dapper) can't create /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases: Permission denied
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/39249
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