FS#28493 - [dhcpcd]produces gigabytes of log file data

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Martin Stolpe (BertiBoeller) - Friday, 17 February 2012, 23:06 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 28 April 2012, 11:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Hello,

I don't know if this is really a dhcpcd bug but sometimes syslog-ng write gigabytes of data with the following contents:
...
Feb 17 23:56:15 localhost dhcpcd[556]: received SIGPIPE
Feb 17 23:56:15 localhost dhcpcd[556]: received SIGPIPE
Feb 17 23:56:15 localhost dhcpcd[556]: received SIGPIPE
Feb 17 23:56:15 localhost dhcpcd[556]: received SIGPIPE
Feb 17 23:56:15 localhost dhcpcd[556]: received SIGPIPE
Feb 17 23:56:15 localhost dhcpcd[556]: received SIGPIPE
....
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 28 April 2012, 11:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  5.5.6
Comment by Karol Błażewicz (karol) - Saturday, 18 February 2012, 02:49 GMT
Is it related to  FS#28477  ?
Comment by Martin Stolpe (BertiBoeller) - Saturday, 18 February 2012, 09:51 GMT
I have downgraded to dhcpcd 5.2.12 and report back after at latest in two days when I don't experience the problem anymore.
Comment by Martin Stolpe (BertiBoeller) - Saturday, 18 February 2012, 14:30 GMT
Ok, I've installed version 5.2.12 and now the dhcpcd service is consuming all CPU cycles (output from htop):

PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
562 root 20 0 8500 780 700 R 98.0 0.0 36:24.34 /sbin/dhcpcd -B -K -L -G -c /usr/lib/networkmanager/nm-dhcp-client.action wlan0
Comment by Paul Ezvan (paulez) - Wednesday, 29 February 2012, 10:07 GMT
Same problem here, with dhcpcd 5.5.4-1.
Comment by Martin Stolpe (BertiBoeller) - Monday, 09 April 2012, 19:43 GMT
Seems to have been fixed in 5.5.6.

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