>Number:         12107
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       dhclient hangs if there are no interfaces
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 01 16:52:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kevin Sullivan
>Release:        NetBSD 1.5
>Organization:
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
	
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD balrog1.wv.cc.cmu.edu 1.5 NetBSD 1.5 (BALROG) #2: Wed Jan 31 22:51:39 EST 2001 ksulliva@balrog1.wv.cc.cmu.edu:/home/ksulliva/kern/BALROG i386


>Description:

When you have no valid interfaces (like in a laptop with no PC cards)
dhclient hangs.  It never writes a pid file in /var/run so
"/etc/rc.d/dhclient stop" will not kill it.

>How-To-Repeat:

Remove all interfaces which dhclient will try to use.  Run dhclient.
It hangs after printing:
 Sending on   Socket/fallback

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
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