Fedora 7 dhclient having issues?

[Alexander Volovics]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:08:28AM -0400, David Vernon wrote:

> I seem to be having an issue with dhclient. If I attempt to bring any of
> my interfaces up on a new network 'ifup {ethX,wlanX)' just hangs. Trying
> to restart networking or any other network admin task hangs after that
> in a way that Ctrl-C can not get me out of. The fix for me has been to
> 'rm -f /var/lib/dhclient/*'. If I do that before trying to start the
> network interfaces then they come up without delay. I see no other
> mention of this in the list. Am I alone on this or does dhclient really
> need to have its memory erased to work?

Is this on an intel core2 duo cpu with the fedora7 x86_64 version?
I have just installed F7-x86_64 on such a machine and immediately
encountered the same problem (eth0 could not be activated at boot).
Trying to bring it up after boot resulted in the machine completely
freezing. No way to get out of it except pulling the plug.

I have not tried removing /var/lib/dhclient/* or any other 'fix'.
Shall have to check bugzilla I expect. Don't know what to make of this.

Alexander