#996626 /sbin/dhclient: isc-dhcp-client: sleeps for decades

Package:
isc-dhcp-client
Source:
isc-dhcp
Description:
DHCP client for automatically obtaining an IP address
Submitter:
Matthias Urlichs
Date:
2021-10-16 12:09:04 UTC
Severity:
important
#996626#5
Date:
2021-10-16 12:08:20 UTC
From:
To:
root@pi-c4:~# ps axuw|grep dhcl
root     9897  0.0  0.3   9152  5748 ?        Ss   Sep20   0:27 dhclient vkabel
root@pi-c4:~# strace -p9897
strace: Process 9897 attached
pselect6(8, [6 7], [], NULL, {tv_sec=1631850199, tv_nsec=585379724}, NULL^Cstrace: Process 9897 detached

Umm, no, putting dhcpd to sleep for 50 years is not a good idea.

Something seems to have overwritten the timeout with the current time at
some point.