DHCP does not start
 

DHCP does not start by ticking the square in the services GUI . It used to in FC4 . I am now using FC5.:confused:

Does it start with the command: service dhcpd restart ?

No it does not start that way also .

Maybe you don't have it installed.
You can check with the command: rpm -qa | grep dhcp

Sorry should have checked earlier . Yes it is installed I get 3 lines . v6 I think ..
I have followed instructions in Christopher Negus' Linux Bible for FC4 . :study:

What does your log say (/var/log/messages)?

There are two things you need to do here.

1) make sure that there is a static IP assigned to the NIC card via /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx. dhcpd will refuse to run at bootup if this isn't configured correctly.
2) make sure that the dhcpd.conf file is correctly formatted. dhcpd will not run if this is incorrectly configured. make a backup of the dhcpd.conf file and replace it with a simple one that is sure to work.

have not been able to locate any mention of dhcp in the log .

doing
dmesg |grep dhcp
just prints the latest log .