<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I just had the same problem of DHCPD not starting after the stretch upgrade from jessie.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unfortunately the logs that the user gets shown by the upgrade process have an uncplete long line, otherwise the root cause would be obvious.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When looking at /var/log/daemon.log here’s the error:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">Jul 27 20:18:21 hedwig isc-dhcp-server[17921]: Starting ISC DHCPv4 server: dhcpddhcpd service already running (pid file /var/run/dhcpd.pid currenty exists) ... failed!</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hence, it seems the upgrade process leaves a dangling PID file around. Removing that PID file manually solved the problem for me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks and cheers</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mich</div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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