dhcpcd-gtk comsuming memory

[armstrong360]

This started to happen very recently. The daemon.log is filling with messages like: dhcpcd[1690]: control_free: No such file or directory

dhcpcd-gtk memory footprint keeps increasing until the system becomes very very sluggish. I have taken to killing dhcpcd-gtk very soon after I log in.

I have tried reinstalling both dhcpcd and the ui
the system is up-to-date except for: glibc, google-chrome and poppler

net-misc/dhcpcd-ui 0.7.8
net-misc/dhcpcd 9.4.1

permissions on /etc/dhcp.conf

rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 1427 May 18 11:05 /etc/dhcpcd.conf

contents of dhcpcd.conf:

# A sample configuration for dhcpcd.
# See dhcpcd.conf(5) for details.

# Allow users of this group to interact with dhcpcd via the control socket.
controlgroup wheel

# Inform the DHCP server of our hostname for DDNS.
hostname

# Use the hardware address of the interface for the Client ID.
#clientid
# or
# Use the same DUID + IAID as set in DHCPv6 for DHCPv4 ClientID as per RFC4361.
# Some non-RFC compliant DHCP servers do not reply with this set.
# In this case, comment out duid and enable clientid above.
duid

# Persist interface configuration when dhcpcd exits.
persistent

# vendorclassid is set to blank to avoid sending the default of
# dhcpcd-<version>:<os>:<machine>:<platform>
vendorclassid

# A list of options to request from the DHCP server.
option domain_name_servers, domain_name, domain_search
option classless_static_routes
# Respect the network MTU. This is applied to DHCP routes.
option interface_mtu

# Request a hostname from the network
option host_name

# Most distributions have NTP support.
#option ntp_servers

# Rapid commit support.
# Safe to enable by default because it requires the equivalent option set
# on the server to actually work.
option rapid_commit

# A ServerID is required by RFC2131.
require dhcp_server_identifier

# Generate SLAAC address using the Hardware Address of the interface
#slaac hwaddr
# OR generate Stable Private IPv6 Addresses based from the DUID
slaac private

[alamahant]

Ok please try

[armstrong360]

The third line should be emerge -1av dhcpcd (note the last "d")

I had to restart the computer to get everything happy - I guess the old (newer version) dhcpcd is still in use, I am not sure how, and thus the newly compiled one doesn't get started?

Anyway this version is behaving.