[BusyBox] udchpc lock-up

Keath Milligan keath at keathmilligan.net
Fri Sep 17 12:55:30 UTC 2004


Thanks, Jenda, I did apply your patch and that wasn't the problem. Unix 
sockets were enabled.

It turns out that this is an issue with the 2.6 kernel. I went back to a 
2.4 kernel with pretty much the same config and it worked.



Jan Lana wrote:

>You need the unix socket too. udhcpc use unix socket in signal handler.
>
>I submit a patch yesterday to the list - the signal handler expects that the
>unix socket can be created everytime and doesn't test the socket() return code.
>
>Regards,
>Jenda
>
>On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:04:34AM -0500, Keath Milligan wrote:
>  
>
>>I made sure packet sockets are enabled in the kernel and I've turned on 
>>debugging in udhcpc - I see "Waiting on select" printed every couple of 
>>seconds until I hit ctrl-c.
>>
>>I can set eth0 to static and it works. I'm using the 2.6 kernel from 
>>linux-mips.org.
>>    
>>

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