DHCP, OpenVPN cannot be deactivated

[jayrock]

Hi,

this issue doesn't seem to have a natural place to go, so I put it cause it's related to DHCP service.

I cannot deactivate the service anymore. In the dashboard, the two checkboxes "Watchdog... " and "Start at boot time..." are of course deactivated. I can see in the logs however that dhcpd is started. When I stop it via dashboard, it is restarted shortly after. Same if I stop it via terminal.

It seems as if there is still some watchdog active restarting the service.

All on Amahi 6 / F14. Note that OpenVPN shows the same behaviour.

Any clues? Which logs are required? (If I knew where to search I had probably figured out myself already..)

If, however, anyone can confirm this pattern I'll just file a bug.

Cheers,
jayrock

[sgden]

Yes, I can confirm that behaviour - at least for the DHCP service.

I did find a work-around until this gets fixed.
If you enable, then disable the check-boxes (Watchdog and start at boot-up), then kill the service, it stays stopped. If you reboot, you have to do this over again.

[jayrock]

Thanks for the confirmation. I added this to the bug tracker: http://bugs.amahi.org/issues/show/783

/jayrock

[rjwaldren]

Hmmm... Thought I was going crazy, I noticed this in the RC's leading up to release but never had the time to T/S and I've been working on other things recently.

I noted that after disabling the DHCP and DNS services - they would come back up a day or so later. I started checking occasionally but never found what was triggering it, I assumed it stemmed from the update scripts in some way, but never dug into it.

[jayrock]

Thanks rjwaldren.

I think it's important that people who are affected by this post it here, so that we can demonstrate the relevance of this issue.

/jayrock

[ressel]

yeah i hate this too!

i have just removed the dnsmasq package, and messed up with the config file to dhcp, so that it will not start.

This is really annoying

[kiwibean]

Same issue here. I'm able to turn off DHCP through the web console, but on reboot it comes on again. Both watchdog and start at boot time are unchecked.

[frankhaas]

can i uninstall the dhcp-service ?? i have same issues. when my server reboots (power-failure) i have troubles with my disabled-dhcp

plz help!
thx

[rhubarb]

I have the problem too: DHCP starts even though it is diabled in the dashboard

Peter

[bigfoot65]

To permanently stop DHCP from starting on reboot, do the following as root user in terminal:

/sbin/service dhcpd stop
/sbin/chkconfig dhcpd off

This should prevent it from restart. You can do this with any service in Fedora that you do not want running or want to start on boot.

Also request you file a bug so we can try to track this one done and fix it properly.