Hi,

Can anyone suggest me, why dhcp fails on ethernet and on wifi when dhcp service is started from init.rc. But its working fine when dhcpcd -B wlan0/eth0 command is given manually. Dhcp is not starting during start up and when started manually it works.

D/wpa_supplicant( 1753): State: ASSOCIATING -> ASSOCIATED I/wpa_supplicant( 1753): CTRL-EVENT-STATE-CHANGE id=1 state=7 BSSID=00:00:00:00:00:00 I/wpa_supplicant( 1753): CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:18:f8:51:45:3f completed (reauth) I//system/bin/dhcpcd( 1778): dhcpcd[1779]: Android requires an interface I//system/bin/dhcpcd( 1778): dhcpcd[1779]: stop_control: No such file or directory I/logwrapper( 1778): /system/bin/dhcpcd terminated by exit(1) D/Tethering( 1155): MasterInitialState.processMessage what=3 D/Tethering( 1155): MasterInitialState.processMessage what=3

E/DhcpStateMachine( 1155): DHCP failed on wlan0: Timed out waiting for dhcpcd to start

I/ethernet( 1146): ==>android_net_ethernet_initEthernetNative I/ethernet( 1146): interface eth0:2 found V/EthernetStateTracker( 1146): Starts... I/ethernet( 1146): interface sit0:3 found E/ethernet( 1146): android_net_ethernet_initEthernetNative exited with success I/ethernet( 1146): User ask for device name on 0, list:7BC7F8, total:2 I/ethernet( 1146): User ask for device name on 1, list:7BC7F8, total:2 V/EthernetStateTracker( 1146): Successed V/EthernetStateTracker( 1146): start to monitor the ethernet devices I/EthernetManager( 1146): Init Ethernet Manager, service: com.android.server.EthernetService@4129e608 V/EthernetService( 1146): device 0 name sit0 V/EthernetService( 1146): device 1 name eth0 E/EthernetService( 1146): EthernetManager.ETHERNET_STATE_ENABLED E/MobileDataStateTracker( 1146): default: Ignoring feature request because could not acquire PhoneService E/MobileDataStateTracker( 1146): default: Could not enable APN type "default" D/NetworkManagementService( 1146): Registering observer D/NetworkManagementService( 1146): Registering observer I/WifiService( 1146): WifiService starting up with Wi-Fi enabled E/WifiStateMachine( 1146): Failed to reload STA firmware java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error communicating to native daemon I/ethernet( 1146): User ask for device name on 0, list:7BC7F8, total:2 I/ethernet( 1146): User ask for device name on 1, list:7BC7F8, total:2 I/EthernetService( 1146): Ethernet dev enabled 2 V/EthernetService( 1146): device 0 name sit0 V/EthernetService( 1146): device 1 name eth0 D/NetUtils( 1146): android_net_utils_resetConnections in env=0x7d8df8 clazz=0x2f900001 iface=sit0 mask=0x3 V/EthernetStateMachine( 1146): start to monitor the ethernet devices E/EthernetStateMachine( 1146): startMonitoring resetInterface() I/EthernetStateMachine( 1146): reset device sit0 W/CommandListener( 1068): Failed to retrieve HW addr for wlan0 (No such device) D/CommandListener( 1068): Setting iface cfg D/NetworkManagementService( 1146): rsp<213 00:00:00:00:00:00 0.0.0.0 0 [down]> D/NetworkManagementService( 1146): flags<[down]> E/WifiStateMachine( 1146): Unable to change interface settings: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to communicate with native daemon to interface setcfg - com.android.server.NativeDaemonConnectorException: Cmd {interface setcfg wlan0 0.0.0.0 0 [down]} failed with code 400 : {Failed to set address (No such device)} E/WifiHW ( 1146): Cannot open "/system/etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf": No such file or directory E/WifiHW ( 1146): Wi-Fi will not be enabled E/WifiStateMachine( 1146): Failed to start supplicant! [ 49.792060] init: no such service 'dhcpcd_sit0'

W/EthernetStateMachine( 1146): Could not stop DHCP I/EthernetSta[ 54.808940] init: no such service 'dhcpcd_sit0:-h android-49740c444506a674 sit0' teMachine( 1146): trigger dhcp for device sit0 I/SystemServer( 1146): Throttle Service D/EthernetStateMachine( 1146): DhcpHandler: DHCP request started I/SystemServer( 1146): Mount Service

E/EthernetStateMachine( 1146): DhcpHandler: DHCP request failed: Timed out waiting for dhcpcd to start I/Process ( 1146): Sending signal. PID: 1307 SIG: 3

*******init.rc*********

chmod 0770 /system/etc/wifi chmod 0660 /system/etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf chmod 0777 /system/etc/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf chown dhcp dhcp /system/etc/dhcpcd chown dhcp dhcp /system/etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd.conf chmod 0775 /system/etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks mkdir /data/local 0771 shell shell chown dhcp dhcp /system/etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks chown dhcp dhcp /system/etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks chown wifi wifi /system/etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf #wpa_supplicant control socket for android wifi.c (android private socket) mkdir /data/misc/wifi 0770 wifi wifi mkdir /data/misc/wifi/sockets 0770 wifi wifi chmod 0770 /data/misc/wifi chmod 0770 /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf chown wifi wifi /data/misc/wifi chown wifi wifi /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf chown wifi wifi /system/release/wifi_settings.cfg mkdir /data/system/wpa_supplicant 0777 wifi wifi chmod 0777 /data/system/wpa_supplicant chown wifi wifi /data/system/wpa_supplicant

# Setup paths used for socket communication with the dhcp daemon(dhcpd) mkdir /data/misc/dhcpcd 0770 dhcp dhcp chown dhcp dhcp /data/misc/dhcpcd mkdir /data/misc/dhcp 0770 dhcp dhcp chown dhcp dhcp /data/misc/dhcp

service dhcpcd_eth0 /system/bin/dhcpcd -dABKL class main group dhcp disabled oneshot

service dhcpcd_wlan0 /system/bin/logwrapper /system/bin/dhcpcd -dd -B wlan0 disabled oneshot

Thanks Swaraj