This bug is imho not fixed for my Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Server with this current "fixed" version of isc-dhcp-server 4.2.4-7ubuntu12.1.
I assume the lease file can't be rotated because its owned by root. # ls -la /var/lib/dhcp total 24 5374571 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 19 14:54 . 5374092 drwxr-xr-x 92 root root 4096 Apr 4 17:31 .. 5374293 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6319 Apr 19 14:54 dhcpd.leases 5379328 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6319 Apr 19 14:53 dhcpd.leases~ It occours also after a restart of isc-dhcp-server. The only quick solution for me was to add a "chown .." in the /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server startscript (at the end of the start/stop/restart sections, i.e. to prevent overwrites during process starts restart | force-reload) test_config $0 stop sleep 2 $0 start if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then exit 1 fi chown dhcpd /var/lib/dhcp/* ;; additional I changed "chown root:root" to "chown dhcpd:dhcpd" in the file: /etc/init/isc-dhcp-server.conf # Allow dhcp server to write lease and pid file as 'dhcpd' user mkdir -p /var/run/dhcp-server chown dhcpd:dhcpd /var/run/dhcp-server # The leases files need to be root:root even when dropping privileges [ -e /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases ] || touch /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases #chown root:root /var/lib/dhcp /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases chown dhcpd:dhcpd /var/lib/dhcp /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases if [ -e /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases~ ]; then #chown root:root /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases~ chown dhcpd:dhcpd /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases~ fi The properties of the affected Ubuntu system (dhclient is disabled) # dpkg -l |grep isc-dhcp-server ii isc-dhcp-server 4.2.4-7ubuntu12.1 amd64 ISC DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment # uname -a Linux gandalf 3.13.0-49-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 10 20:11:33 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS \n \l Apparmor config looks like # grep leases /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.dhcpd /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd{,6}.leases* lrw, /etc/dhcpd{,6}.leases* lrw, /{,var/}run/eucalyptus/net/*.leases* lrw, # tail -f syslog Apr 19 16:51:06 gandalf dhcpd: Wrote 24 leases to leases file. Apr 19 16:51:06 gandalf dhcpd: Can't backup lease database /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases to /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases~: Operation not permitted Apr 19 16:51:06 gandalf dhcpd: Added reverse map from 10.2.10.10.in-addr.arpa. to lab-01.lab.foo.bar. Apr 19 16:51:06 gandalf kernel: [14157.954888] audit_printk_skb: 57 callbacks suppressed Apr 19 16:51:06 gandalf kernel: [14157.954892] type=1702 audit(1429455066.150:174): op=linkat ppid=1 pid=2240 auid=4294967295 uid=121 gid=130 euid=121 suid=121 fsuid=121 egid=130 sgid=130 fsgid=130 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="dhcpd" exe="/usr/sbin/dhcpd" res=0 Apr 19 16:51:06 gandalf kernel: [14157.954899] type=1302 audit(1429455066.150:175): item=0 name="/var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases" inode=5375035 dev=08:01 mode=0100644 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 nametype=NORMAL # tail -f /var/log/kern.log Apr 19 16:51:06 gandalf kernel: [14157.954892] type=1702 audit(1429455066.150:174): op=linkat ppid=1 pid=2240 auid=4294967295 uid=121 gid=130 euid=121 suid=121 fsuid=121 egid=130 sgid=130 fsgid=130 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="dhcpd" exe="/usr/sbin/dhcpd" res=0 Apr 19 16:51:06 gandalf kernel: [14157.954899] type=1302 audit(1429455066.150:175): item=0 name="/var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases" inode=5375035 dev=08:01 mode=0100644 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 nametype=NORMAL -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1417658 Title: apparmor denied operation file_inherit from networkmanager when using HWE kernel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/isc-dhcp/+bug/1417658/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs