Unreliable LTSP DHCP server: No DHCP offers received on client

[Stéphane Graber]

On 08/22/2012 03:02 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> I have a couple small LTSP networks set up for testing.  On the network
> with Edubuntu 12.04, the LTSP client boot regularly fails at step one of
> the PXE boot with the message: "DHCP ..... No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers
> were received."
> 
> Restarting the isc-dhcp-server service always works, but something about
> the boot process regularly causes it to fail to start.  The restart
> command output:
>     stop: Unknown instance:
>     isc-dhcp-server start/running, process (pid goes here)
> 
> Dmesg includes these lines:
>     init: isc-dhcp-server main process ended, respawning
>     init: isc-dhcp-server main process (pid goes here) terminated
>     init: isc-dhcp-server respawning too fast, stopped
> 
> Is anyone familiar with this problem?

Look in /var/log/upstart/isc-dhcp-server.log for details.


-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com

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