Description of problem: At least in Fedora8, dhcp had a 'dhcp-3.0.5-inherit-leases.patch', to avoid unnecessarily deconfiguring a network interface if it has an existing lease that may be valid. This enabled things like iSCSI root and nfs root to have a dhcp interface, and not be botched by the network startup script. In Fedora9, this patch has no equivalent, and as such dhclient startup always deconfigures the network interface, even if that interface is required to access the root filesystem. NFS root and iSCSI root are precluded by this function. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.0.0-14 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Have a lease in /var/lib/dhclient 2.set -x in dhclient-script 3.Note how 'keep_old_ip' is never yes in fedora9, but it is in fedora8 at the right times Actual results: Network is deconfigured, and nfs root systems hang Expected results: dhclient does not interrupt boot process even for nfs root or iscsi root Additional info:
Not sure how I lost that patch when I moved to dhcp-4.0.0, but I've ported it to 4.0.0. I'll be releasing an update for F-9 that addresses this issue. Thanks for the report.
dhcp-4.0.0-17.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
dhcp-4.0.0-17.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dhcp'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7105
dhcp-4.0.0-17.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
The patch dhcp-4.0.0-inherit-leases.patch in dhclient-4.0.0-18.fc9 no worky: client -> active -> is_bootp should be !client -> active -> is_bootp and memcpy (client -> active -> address.iabuf, &(client -> interface -> addresses[i]), 4) == 0 should be memcmp (client -> active -> address.iabuf, &(client -> interface -> addresses[i]), 4) == 0 Thank you for your attention.
Reopening per comment #5.
dhcp-4.0.0-22.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dhcp-4.0.0-22.fc9
dhcp-4.0.0-22.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dhcp'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-9615
dhcp-4.0.0-22.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.