Hi. On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 05:33:39PM +0000, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > It seems the dhcp service does not want to start but I have no idea why. > I have stripped my dhcpd.conf down to barely nothing and a regular test gives > no errors but the service refuses to start, why? ... > Also the logging is not very helpful
I always said that less is more. You see, the trick with these logs is to know where to look, so ... > linom1:~# systemctl status isc-dhcp-server.service > ● isc-dhcp-server.service - LSB: DHCP server > Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server; generated; vendor preset: > enabled) > Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2018-09-06 17:47:42 CEST; > 12min ago > Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) > Process: 1668 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server start (code=exited, > status=1/FAILURE) > Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915) > CGroup: /system.slice/isc-dhcp-server.service > └─1409 /usr/sbin/dhcpd -4 -q -cf /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf This is your usual systemd blurb, showing that you have dhcpd running already. > Sep 06 17:47:42 linom1 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: DHCP server... Useless. > Sep 06 17:47:42 linom1 isc-dhcp-server[1668]: /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server: > 50: /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server: cannot open /etc/dhcp/dhcpd6.conf: No > Sep 06 17:47:42 linom1 isc-dhcp-server[1668]: Launching both IPv4 and IPv6 > servers (please configure INTERFACES in /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server if Scary, but they are warnings, not errors. Yes, it takes reading initscript to understand that. > Sep 06 17:47:42 linom1 isc-dhcp-server[1668]: Starting ISC DHCPv4 server: > dhcpddhcpd service already running (pid file /var/run/dhcpd.pid currenty And this shows us that you cannot start what's been started already (another instance of dhcpcd is using a pidfile). I assume that your dhcpd.conf is OK, so the problem should solve itself via simple: service isc-dhcp-server stop service isc-dhcp-server start service isc-dhcp-server status Reco
