dhcpcd is not running

[DevSysEngineer]

Describe the Bug

When I ran factor on my server I got a lot of errors in /var/log/syslog saying dhcpcd was not running. This is correct because my server is configured with a static IP address without dhcpcd.

Expected Behavior

No error logs

Steps to Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. apt-get purge dhcpcd
2. Run facter
3. Check log: tail -f /var/log/syslog -n 200

Environment

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Release: 24.04
Codename: noble

facter --version

4.3.0

[joshcooper]

@DevSysEngineer can you include some of the errors you're seeing the log (redacted as needed)? Also can you try to reproduce using the latest version 4.10.0?

[DevSysEngineer]

Hello @joshcooper, I resolved the issue by purging the dhcpcd-base package.

This line in the code link triggers the dhcpcd command, but it fails since dhcpcd isn't installed on the system. After removing dhcpcd-base, this line no longer attempts to call dhcpcd, which resolves the problem.

Is there perhaps an additional check needed to verify that the dhcpcd client is running before calling it?