Re: user/3737: dhclient locks up machine on latest snapshot

[Adam <suck@my-balls.com>]

The following reply was made to PR user/3737; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Adam <suck@my-balls.com>
To: Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>
Cc: gnats@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: user/3737: dhclient locks up machine on latest snapshot
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:10:21 -0400

 On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:41:53PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
 > suck@my-balls.com wrote:
 > > >Description:
 > >         "sudo dhclient fxp0" consistently locks up my machine, requiring me to turn it
 > > off and back on again.  I was using a march 3 snapshot before and dhclient worked fine.
 > > I upgraded to the latest snapshot last night and this started.
 > 
 > Could you try a static address?  I *suspect* you will be getting a
 > similar result (a hung machine when network communications takes
 > place, not at the dhclient invocation, obviously), meaning this is not
 > a dhclient issue, but rather a general failure when communicating with
 > the NIC.
 
 Nope, everything is fine when I assign an IP.  Its been working fine all
 morning so far, doing the usual ssh, email and web browsing.  Just
 dhclient seems to be an issue, although opera unregistered itself, lost
 all its settings, and seems to crash all the time since I upgraded as
 well.
 
 Adam