forcemerge 760170 755834 thanks Reproduced trivially with a sysvinit system:
$ cat /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server cat: /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server: No such file or directory $ sudo apt install isc-dhcp-server [sudo] password for neil: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: isc-dhcp-server-ldap The following NEW packages will be installed: isc-dhcp-server 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 381 kB of archives. After this operation, 863 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://mirror/debian/ unstable/main isc-dhcp-server amd64 4.3.1-5 [381 kB] Fetched 381 kB in 0s (1,163 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package isc-dhcp-server. (Reading database ... 187868 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../isc-dhcp-server_4.3.1-5_amd64.deb ... Unpacking isc-dhcp-server (4.3.1-5) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ... Setting up isc-dhcp-server (4.3.1-5) ... Generating /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server... [FAIL] Starting ISC DHCP server: dhcpd[....] check syslog for diagnostics. ... failed! failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript isc-dhcp-server, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package isc-dhcp-server (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: isc-dhcp-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) neil@sylvester:qa$ apt list sysvinit* Listing... Done sysvinit/unstable,unstable,testing,now 2.88dsf-58 amd64 [installed] sysvinit-core/unstable,unstable,testing,now 2.88dsf-58 amd64 [installed,automatic] sysvinit-utils/unstable,unstable,testing,now 2.88dsf-58 amd64 [installed,automatic] -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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