After going for a reboot, I noticed that my network wasn't up. I tried to `rc-service net.enp5s0 restart`, but got messages like: * Bringing up interface enp5s0 * config_enp5s0 not specified; defaulting to DHCP * dhcp ... * Running dhclient ... * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/sbin/dhclient' [ !! ] [ !! ] net.enp5s0 | * ERROR: net.enp5s0 failed to start I tried manually with `dhclient enp5s0` and got no error (but also no network) until I tried with `-v`, upon which I saw the message: Can't allocate interface elease After manually configuring my network with `ifconfig` (thank goodness I remember how!), I found gentoo forum posts which suggested that the issue may be to do with /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases. Looking in that file, I don't see an obvious error, but perhaps it would be more obvious to someone who knows more. I tried moving that file off to /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases.bak and restarting network, upon which everything worked. I rebooted just to make sure, and everything still worked. So it seems there's some issue in that file (which I hadn't touched before today) that prevented dhclient from working. I will attach that file after this issue is created. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. have my wonky dhclient.leases file 2. attempt to bring up a network interface called enp5s0 3. experience no network Actual Results: No network after a reboot until I removed /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases Expected Results: /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases is a file managed by processes other than me. I expect those processes to act smarter than I would ^_^. Network should have continued to work after a reboot.
Created attachment 643090 [details] dhclient.leases
