Bug 120531 - ifup starts multiple dhclient's
Summary: ifup starts multiple dhclient's
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386 Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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: 120533 (view as bug list)
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-04-09 21:45 UTC by Nickolai Zeldovich
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: FC4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-09-30 20:48:54 UTC
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Patch for /sbin/ifup (864 bytes, patch)
2004-04-09 21:45 UTC, Nickolai Zeldovich 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Nickolai Zeldovich 2004-04-09 21:45:24 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When ifup is ran multiple times, multiple copies of dhclient are
started.  This is exacerbated by a DHCP server that takes a long time
to reply -- this means that the race condition window between ifup
doing a kill on the old dhclient, and the new dhclient writing out the
/var/run/pid file upon getting a lease, is quite large.

The attached patch uses /usr/bin/lockfile to do strict locking to
avoid the possibility of concurrently running dhclient processes
altogether.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-7.49-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run /sbin/ifup eth0 &
2.Run /sbin/ifup eth0
3.Notice two dhclient's running that don't exit
    

Actual Results:  As a result of having two dhclient processes running,
each process obtains a different DHCP lease and reconfigures the
interface according to _its_ lease periodically.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Nickolai Zeldovich 2004-04-09 21:45:50 UTC 
Created attachment 99287 [details]
Patch for /sbin/ifup
Comment 2 Miloslav Trmac 2004-04-12 10:07:56 UTC 
*** Bug 120533 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-30 20:48:54 UTC 
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

This should be fixed as of Fedora Core 4.
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