#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:
2026-08-05 17:34:38 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.

#996626#10
Date:
2026-08-05 17:31:09 UTC
From:
To:
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/.

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