[oneiric] net-installer dhcp client fails with a DHCPDECLINE
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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netcfg (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Stéphane Graber |
Bug Description
Installing recent oneiric builds via the net installer images fails. The first dhcp request to fetch the pxe boot image succeeds, as does the second before fetching a kickstart file.
The third and final time, however, fails with the client rejecting the lease with a DHCPDECLINE, repeating this over and over again.
I first started seeing this problem somewhere after the alpha-3 installer image, though I'm not sure exactly where. The 20101020ubuntu63 installer build fails.
Tracing through /sbin/dhclient-
I managed to work around this by adding an unconditional call to 'ip -4 addr flush dev $interface' in /sbin/dhclient-
Changed in base-installer (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) |
Changed in netcfg (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Stéphane, this sounds right up your alley. Can you take a look at this?