- Package:
- isc-dhcp-client
- Source:
- isc-dhcp
- Description:
- DHCP client for automatically obtaining an IP address
- Submitter:
- Matthias Urlichs
- Date:
- 2026-08-05 17:34:38 UTC
- Severity:
- important
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.
Dear submitter, as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1143544 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)