Tobias DiPasquale on Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:00:06 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] DHCP failing on OpenBSD/SPARC


On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 10:30, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 08:36:46AM -0500, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> > I put "dhcp" in the hostname.gem0 file, as
> > instructed to by the OpenBSD FAQ, but that failed to bring me
> > connectivity.
> 
> Not the way I usually do this (I set this in /etc/rc.conf and call
> out to a script I wrote to check for one of the various ethernet
> cards I'm likely to use--wi0, an0, xi0--and dtrt for that card,
> which some times means some special shenanigans for the wireless
> stuff), but in light of this:
> 
> > spbsd# dhclient gem0
> > Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0p15-OpenBSD
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > spbsd#
> 
> I'd say you've got a deeper problem. It smells like a misused
> syscall. What does gdb say about that core? (Probably won't help
> much if your dhclient binary lacks debugging symbols.)
> 
> Are you sure your userland matches your kernel? (It sure should if
> they came off the same CD set...)
> 
> Have you seen if there are any patches to dhclient from OpenBSD's
> web site?

Yeah, sorry. I actually found that the fix is to update to a later
OpenBSD, so I installed 3.2 and DHCP is working just fine. Thanks for
the help and sorry for not letting you know I had fixed the problem.

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<< Tobias DiPasquale >>
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