Hi,

I'm about to upload a new dropbear package to Debian eventually.

Can you take a look at #584780 and #557107, two reports concerning the
initramfs integration?  If you have changes that should go into the
Debian package, please post them to the bug log.

Thanks, Gerrit.


On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:06:52PM +0900, Taisuke Yamada wrote:
> Package: dropbear
> Version: 0.52-4
> Severity: important
> 
> When installed to DHCP server (running dnsmasq), initramfs-tools script
> that comes with dropbear breaks DHCP server by overwriting own IP address
> with DHCP-assigned (= self-assigned) address.
> 
> Following code in "/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/dropbear"
> is causing delayed DHCP assignment by "ipconfig" command invoked from
> "configure_networking" shell function.
> 
>   configure_networking &
>   mkdir -p /var/run
>   /sbin/dropbear
> 
> This is a problem because if you install dropbear to DHCP server,
> this background task will wait for oneself to come up, and then
> rewrites own IP address.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL 
> set to C)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages dropbear depends on:
> ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared 
> lib
> ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
> 
> dropbear recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages dropbear suggests:
> ii  openssh-client                1:5.3p1-1  secure shell (SSH) client, for 
> sec
> ii  runit                         2.1.1-3    system-wide service supervision
> ii  udev                          150-2      /dev/ and hotplug management 
> daemo
> ii  xauth                         1:1.0.4-1  X authentication utility
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 



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