dhcpcd-discuss

Hi William

On 18/09/2012 0:25, William MacKay wrote:
> I'm using wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd and they both work fine. I can
> connect to my wireless network and get an IP address. But when I 
> start
> dhcpcd-gtk, it tells me dhcpcd is down, even though it is running. 
> Its
> icon in the indicator panel displays a red X. Do you have any ideas 
> on
> how I could get it to work?
>
> I'm using Debian wheezy (testing) with dhcpcd 5.5.6, dhcpcd-dbus
> 0.6.0, and dhcpcd-gtk 0.6.0. Here is some console output that may be
> relevant:
>
> foobaz@balrog ~> ls -lh /var/run/wpa_supplicant
> total 0
> srwxrwx--- 1 root netdev 0 Sep 17 14:26 wlan0=
>
> foobaz@balrog ~> ps aux | grep -i dhc
> root      3824  0.0  0.0   8396   340 ?        Ss   14:27   0:00 
> dhcpcd wlan0
> root      3965  0.0  0.0  10664   964 ?        S    14:29   0:00
> /usr/lib/dhcpcd-dbus/dhcpcd-dbus
> foobaz    6758  0.0  0.0   7816   912 pts/1    S+   16:14   0:00 grep 
> -i dhc
>
> foobaz@balrog ~> /sbin/ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr e0:ca:94:4c:3f:a4
>           inet addr:192.168.55.47  Bcast:192.168.55.255  
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: 2001:470:1f05:67b:e2ca:94ff:fe4c:3fa4/64 
> Scope:Global
>           inet6 addr: fe80::e2ca:94ff:fe4c:3fa4/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:76324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:41304 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:88986385 (84.8 MiB)  TX bytes:5990654 (5.7 MiB)
>
> foobaz@balrog ~> dhcpcd-gtk
> ** Message: Connecting ...
> ** Message: Connected to dhcpcd-dbus-0.6.0
> ** Message: Status changed to down
> ** Message: dhcpcd not running

From your process list, it's because dhcpcd is running per interface. 
In this case, wlan0.
For dhcpcd-dbus and dhcpcd-gtk to work, dhcpcd needs to be run as a 
single daemon for all interfaces.
So just simply set dhcpcd to start in your runlevel and remove any DHCP 
configuration from the Debian network config.

Thanks

Roy