[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#671707: isc-dhcp-client: dhclient does not get ip address after fresh install

[Andy]

Package: isc-dhcp-client
Version: 4.3.1-6
Followup-For: Bug #671707

Dear Maintainer,

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I'm not sure if this is isc-dhcp-client (4.3.1-6) package problem,
since i didn't do any debugging, but my networking autoconfiguration
has succeeded while installing fresh, new debian jessie. However,
after first (re)boot my eth0 couldn't get ip address, and that's how
the configuration of eth0 looked in /etc/network/interfaces after first
boot:

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Bringing eth0 down with ifdown and bringing it back with ifup i finally
was able to get the ip address, netmask, gateway for eth0 and dns server
addresses in my /etc/resolv.conf. However my network configuration for
eth0 gets lost after reboot, but after few more reboots it might just get
back. I've successfully reproduced the same result trying to install debian
jessie on vmware and vbox. I tried to disable ipv6 by filling
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="ipv6.disable=1" in /etc/default/grub and running
update-grub, but it didn't help.

Long story short - it just cannot get the addresses after clean install,
with default configuration. If it matters, i deselect all the software
while installing jessie, even standard system utilities. I only choose
to install sshd.

This is my first bug report, sorry, if i didn't do that the right way.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client depends on:
ii  debianutils       4.4+b1
ii  iproute2          3.16.0-2
ii  isc-dhcp-common   4.3.1-6
ii  libc6             2.19-18
ii  libdns-export100  1:9.9.5.dfsg-9
ii  libirs-export91   1:9.9.5.dfsg-9
ii  libisc-export95   1:9.9.5.dfsg-9

isc-dhcp-client recommends no packages.

Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>
pn  resolvconf     <none>

-- no debconf information