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And I had this bugreport about +</I>><i> dhclient trying to store under a non-existent /var/lib/dhclient directory. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I modified the dhcp package as in Fedora, to have each part +</I>><i> (client/server) use their own, self-provided, state directory to store +</I>><i> their lease file: /var/lib/dhcpd and /var/lib/dhclient. I expected to +</I>><i> fix the issue, and making life easier by mimicating fedora setup. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Then Dave reported he now had the same error message as before, but with +</I>><i> the old directory: dhclient tries to store lease files under no more +</I>><i> existent /var/lib/dhcp directory... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I grepped /etc for occurences of '/var/lib/dhcp', without results. I had +</I>><i> a look in networkmanager sources, which seems to be the culprit. It once +</I>><i> used C macro NM_DHCLIENT_STATE_DIRECTORY for this purpose, but not +</I>><i> anymore. Now, according to current code, it should uses its own state +</I>><i> directory (/var/lib/NetworkManager) to store those files, but that's +</I>><i> obviously not the case. And I'm myself having lease files in both +</I>><i> directories (/var/lib/dhclient and /var/lib/dhcp). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I'm suspecting a mix of hardcoded or default configuration between dhcp +</I>><i> (the package), networkmanager and initscripts, but I can't figure where +</I>><i> exactly. If someone with more knowledge of those deep arcanes could +</I>><i> help, I'd be very grateful. +</I> +Certainly here with my NM launched dhclient processes, it passes the +"-lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-$FOO-eth0.lease" argument to it. + + +What is also strange however is that NM doesn't build for me here. Seems +this was due to a commit by Olav to update it to 0.9.7.995 + +<A HREF="http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=388631">http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=388631</A> + +<A HREF="http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/networkmanager/current/SPECS/networkmanager.spec?r1=388631&r2=388630&pathrev=388631">http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/networkmanager/current/SPECS/networkmanager.spec?r1=388631&r2=388630&pathrev=388631</A> + + +Interestingly the commit message is "SILENT: undo version change". Not +quite sure what to make of that. Can you elaborate on the version change +Olav? Perhaps I missed a mail somewhere asking for help rediffing a +patch or something? My memory is buggy :p + + +Anyway, going back to the 0.9.6.4 version (which is what is available as +built) and I find this via a quick grep: + +[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">colin at jimmy</A> NetworkManager-0.9.6.4]$ grep -rn --exclude=*.po "\.lease" +ChangeLog:19635: dhclient with "-lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-%s.leases". +src/dhcp-manager/nm-dhcp-dhclient.c:95: return g_strdup_printf +("%s/dhclient%s-%s-%s.lease", + +This uses NM_DHCLIENT_LEASE_DIR which is different to what you mentioned +above. + +This appears to be the code in question: + +#if defined(TARGET_DEBIAN) || defined(TARGET_SUSE) || +defined(TARGET_MANDRIVA) +#if defined(DHCLIENT_V3) +#define NM_DHCLIENT_LEASE_DIR LOCALSTATEDIR "/lib/dhcp3" +#else +#define NM_DHCLIENT_LEASE_DIR LOCALSTATEDIR "/lib/dhcp" +#endif +#else +#define NM_DHCLIENT_LEASE_DIR LOCALSTATEDIR "/lib/dhclient" +#endif + + +I presume just removing the "|| defined(TARGET_MANDRIVA)" bit of the +first #if condition should do the trick. + +I'd like to see what Olav had in mind with that commit first tho'. Seems +there are a few changes in NM that will mean we have to refactor things +a bit (it should use NMSTATEDIR in the newer code like you say and thus +be in it's own directory). + +Col + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="022576.html">[Mageia-dev] dhclient lease files location +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="022824.html">[Mageia-dev] dhclient lease files location +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#22581">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#22581">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#22581">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#22581">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |