dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Robert

On 18/02/2014 11:04, Robert Orzanna wrote:
> I am using Wicd for managing my network connections. However, each
> time Wicd is connecting to a network, I get the following error
> message related to dhcpcd.
>
> Feb 18 11:07:16 thinkpad dhcpcd[21194]: dhcpcd not running
> Feb 18 11:07:16 thinkpad dhcpcd[21214]: dhcpcd not running
>
> I only run wicd.service which in turn should automatically run dhcpcd
> if needed:
>
> wicd.service - Wicd a wireless and wired network manager for Linux
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/wicd.service; enabled)
>    Active: active (running) since So 2014-02-16 13:16:49 CET; 1 day
> 22h ago
>
>  Main PID: 377 (wicd)
>    CGroup: /system.slice/wicd.service
>            ├─  377 /usr/bin/python2 -O
> /usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py --no-daemon
>            ├─  838 /usr/bin/python2 -O
> /usr/share/wicd/daemon/monitor.py
>            ├─21221 wpa_supplicant -B -i wls1 -c
> /var/lib/wicd/configurations/00246ccdfa60 -Dwext
>            └─21383 /usr/sbin/dhcpcd -h thinkpad --noipv4ll
> wls1
>
> dhcpcd.service - dhcpcd on all interfaces
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd.service; disabled)
>
>    Active: inactive (dead)
>
> I left the dhcpcd.conf untouched.
>
> I want to understand what is going wrong here. Is it an issue of Wicd
> or dhcpcd?

My understanding is that it works with dhcpcd-6.1.0 but not in a later 
version.
Several things have changed (well, quite a lot really) between the two.

The most notable is the IAID change. To revert to the old behaviour put 
this in dhcpcd.conf:
interface eth0
iaid eth0

replace eth0 with the name of your interface.
Let me know if that fixes it for you!

Thanks

Roy