[Pkg-pdns-maintainers] Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'

[Peter van Dijk]

Hello,

On Jul 11, 2012, at 19:13 , Juha Heinanen wrote:

> After I did yesterday 'apt-get dist-upgrade' of my debian wheezy host, pdns
> server started to repeatedly write to syslog these messages:
> 
> Jul 11 07:28:15 siika pdns[3366]: Our pdns instance exited with code 1
> Jul 11 07:28:15 siika pdns[3366]: Respawning
> Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Guardian is launching an instance
> Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom'
> Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: This is a guarded instance of pdns
> Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting
> parameter 'gmysql-host'
> 
> Before this dist-upgrade pdns had worked fine in my wheezy host.


This happens when you have multiple launch= lines (possibly spread over different config files). Perhaps the dist-upgrade added a bind config file in /etc/powerdns/pdns.d?

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/