From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.10 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: DHCP servers return zero in the lease-time field to indicate an unlimited lease. (BOOTP servers can only issue unlimited leases) dhclient crashes with a Floating Point Exception when it gets zero lease time. This has been spotted in other OSs, e.g.: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2003/05/01/0005.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up a DHCP server to return zero (infinite) lease times 2. Set up RH9 Linux to obtain network info by DHCP 3. Activate the ethernet interface Actual Results: ifup fails, citing Floating Point Exception in /sbin/dhclient Expected Results: ifup should report OK and set the IP address for the interface Additional info: The component field should be 'dhclient' but Bugzilla does not have such a category.
I applied the documented patch. Thanks. dhcp-3_0pl2-6_15 in rawhide
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-566.html