[ale] Static IP became DHCP IP

[Shawn]

just out of curiosity, was avahi-autoipd installed on that server?


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:46 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

>
> >> Any ideas what I misconfigured, if anything?
> >>
> > NetworkManager's not installed/running, is it?  Although it's supposed
> > to ignore interfaces that have a configuration in
> > /etc/network/interfaces, I've seen it do odd things.
> >
>
> Don't think so. This is "server", not "desktop". I don't think
> network-manager is even installed.
>
> The issue seems to be the /sbin/dhclient-script. That is part of
> dhcp3-client, which I don't need, but removing it automatically removes
> ubuntu-minimal - which appears to be responsible for boot, hw detection
> ... basically a ton of really, really important other things.
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/ubuntu-minimal
>
> Stupid meta package dependencies.  Why should DHCP be mandatory on a
> server?  I guess we'll never know 'cause I'm afraid - won't be removing
> that.
>
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