[Solved] netcfg: strange message

cmlr · 2008-10-16 23:45:31

Can anyone tell me what this means? When I use netcfg2 to connect the ethernet on my laptop, it does connect. But before connecting, it prints this message

eth0: write_lease: No such file or directory

Here is my network profile, which is essentially the same as one of the example files.

CONNECTION="ethernet"
DESCRIPTION="A very basic ethernet profile, using dhcp"
INTERFACE=eth0
IP="dhcp"
DHCP_TIMEOUT=30

################

Added 10/19/08: Installing dhcpcd from testing solved the problem.

Last edited by cmlr (2008-10-19 21:51:07)

pressh · 2008-10-18 17:40:57

cmlr wrote:

eth0: write_lease: No such file or directory

it seems to be caused by dhcpcd. I'll look into it the next coming days.

[edit]
Is this a new install?

can you try this (as root):

touch /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.lease

Last edited by pressh (2008-10-18 19:41:29)

Ahyuwhiye · 2008-10-18 20:37:07

I am getting the same output while starting /etc/rc.d/network with 'eth0="dhcp"' in rc.conf. And yes this just happened after recently (new) installation, but it still works.

cmlr · 2008-10-18 20:40:54

There is no directory /var/lib/dhcpcd. Instead, I have /usr/lib/dhcpcd but no file dhcpcd-eth0.lease. Then I ran

touch /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.lease

and restarted the computer. Nothing changed, it connected, but with the same message.

pressh wrote:

cmlr wrote:
eth0: write_lease: No such file or directory
it seems to be caused by dhcpcd. I'll look into it the next coming days.
[edit]
Is this a new install?
can you try this (as root):
touch /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.lease

Last edited by cmlr (2008-10-18 20:43:46)

pressh · 2008-10-19 08:32:22

cmlr wrote:

There is no directory /var/lib/dhcpcd. Instead, I have /usr/lib/dhcpcd but no file dhcpcd-eth0.lease. Then I ran
touch /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.lease

As I expect there is indeed no directory /var/lib/dhcpcd, which I expect to be causing the problem. I can test it myself when I'm home this evening, but I think you really need to at least run the touch command I gave you.
Ah well, I test it myself later today and report if it works if you don't have time before that.

atomic · 2008-10-19 09:36:04

Same situation here. I had a fresh Arch install, but this time from ftp server. Before i used to do cd instalation and never had this message after starting network. And it takes a little bit longer to activate network deamon now.
I have tried running this commmand

touch /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.lease

as a root, and get "No such file or directory"

OK! Solved! Just have to create that dhcpcd directory in /var/lib and run that command. Thanks!

Last edited by atomic (2008-10-19 09:44:44)

pressh · 2008-10-19 12:45:33

yeah sorry, I wasn't sure if touch would create that directory.
The correct command should be

install -d /var/lib/dhcpcd

I'll update the package and make sure it creates an empty directory there.

cmlr · 2008-10-19 20:37:12

I installed dhcpcd from testing, and I no longer have problems.

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[Solved] netcfg: strange message

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