[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#760170: isc-dhcp-server: Installation fails

Thu Jan 15 22:40:24 UTC 2015

Control: severity -1 grave

Package: isc-dhcp-server
Version: 4.3.1-5
Followup-For: Bug #760170

I encountered this bug recently. This seems very similar, if not
identical to #755834. A package failing to install without
preconfiguration seems to warrant release-critical bug status...

In order to reproduce, I re-installed a clean jessie system using
debian-installer and only installed the standard package set. On first
boot, I installed isc-dhcp-server, and it still failed to install:

  root at test-isc-dhcp-server:~# apt-get -f install
  Reading package lists... 0%Reading package lists... 100%Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 50%Building dependency tree... 50%Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... 0%Reading state information... 0%Reading state information... Done
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Setting up isc-dhcp-server (4.3.1-5) ...
  Job for isc-dhcp-server.service failed. See 'systemctl status isc-dhcp-server.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
  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)

  root at test-isc-dhcp-server:~# systemctl status isc-dhcp-server
  [1;31m●[0m isc-dhcp-server.service - LSB: DHCP server
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server)
     Active: [1;31mfailed[0m (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2015-01-15 14:23:20 PST; 12s ago
    Process: 1291 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server start [1;31m(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)[0m

  Jan 15 14:23:18 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd[1298]: [1;31mbugs on either our web page...[0m
  Jan 15 14:23:18 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd[1298]: [1;31mbefore submitting a bug.  T...[0m
  Jan 15 14:23:18 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd[1298]: [1;31mprocess and the information...[0m
  Jan 15 14:23:18 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd[1298]: 
  Jan 15 14:23:18 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd[1298]: [1;31mexiting.[0m
  Jan 15 14:23:20 test-isc-dhcp-server isc-dhcp-server[1291]: Starting ISC DHCP...
  Jan 15 14:23:20 test-isc-dhcp-server isc-dhcp-server[1291]: failed!
  Jan 15 14:23:20 test-isc-dhcp-server systemd[1]: [1;39misc-dhcp-server.service: co...1[0m
  Jan 15 14:23:20 test-isc-dhcp-server systemd[1]: [1;31mFailed to start LSB: DHCP s....[0m
  Jan 15 14:23:20 test-isc-dhcp-server systemd[1]: [1;39mUnit isc-dhcp-server.servic....[0m
  Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

  root at test-isc-dhcp-server:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
  # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
  # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

  source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

  # The loopback network interface
  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback

  # The primary network interface
  allow-hotplug eth0
  iface eth0 inet dhcp

I also confirmed that the problem isn't systemd specific by installing
sysvinit-core and rebooting, but the same problem persists, with the
following information in syslog:

  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server 4.3.1
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems Consortium.
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: All rights reserved.
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server 4.3.1
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems Consortium.
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: All rights reserved.
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: 
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: No subnet declaration for eth0 (192.168.122.201).
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: ** Ignoring requests on eth0.  If this is not what
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd:    you want, please write a subnet declaration
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd:    in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd:    to which interface eth0 is attached. **
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: 
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: 
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: Not configured to listen on any interfaces!
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: 
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: If you think you have received this message due to a bug rather
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: than a configuration issue please read the section on submitting
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: bugs on either our web page at www.isc.org or in the README file
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: before submitting a bug.  These pages explain the proper
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: process and the information we find helpful for debugging..
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: 
  Jan 15 14:27:05 test-isc-dhcp-server dhcpd: exiting.

live well,
  vagrant

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.55
ii  debianutils            4.4+b1
ii  isc-dhcp-common        4.3.1-5
ii  libc6                  2.19-13
ii  libdns-export100       1:9.9.5.dfsg-8
ii  libirs-export91        1:9.9.5.dfsg-8
ii  libisc-export95        1:9.9.5.dfsg-8
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13+nmu1

isc-dhcp-server recommends no packages.

Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server suggests:
pn  isc-dhcp-server-ldap  <none>

-- debconf information:
  isc-dhcp-server/interfaces:
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