Your message dated Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:31:09 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1143544: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #918720, regarding isc-dhcp-server fails to install completely due to missing /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases file to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: isc-dhcp-server Version: 4.4.1-2 Severity: normal Apologies if this report turns out to be a duplicate; I did look through bugs.d.o (and those PRs listed by reportbug) but didn't find an existing one for this issue. The problem is that the isc-dhcp-server package installation fails in it's last step: (#) root@master:~ >>> apt-get install isc-dhcp-server -y Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: policykit-1 isc-dhcp-server-ldap The following NEW packages will be installed: isc-dhcp-server 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/548 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,468 kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package isc-dhcp-server. (Reading database ... 56261 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../isc-dhcp-server_4.4.1-2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking isc-dhcp-server (4.4.1-2) ... Processing triggers for systemd (240-2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-3) ... Setting up isc-dhcp-server (4.4.1-2) ... Generating /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server... restorecon: lstat(/var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases) failed: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing package isc-dhcp-server (--configure): installed isc-dhcp-server package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 255 Processing triggers for systemd (240-2) ... Errors were encountered while processing: isc-dhcp-server needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Disabling copy-on-write on /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin This is easily fixed with "touch /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases" followed by a reinvokation of apt-get: (#) root@master:~ >>> touch /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases; apt-get install isc-dhcp-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done isc-dhcp-server is already the newest version (4.4.1-2). 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. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up isc-dhcp-server (4.4.1-2) ... Job for isc-dhcp-server.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status isc-dhcp-server.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript isc-dhcp-server, action "start" failed. [...expected service startup errors regarding lack of configuration...] -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Permissive - Policy name: default Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.69 ii debianutils 4.8.6 ii libc6 2.28-2 ii libdns-export1104 1:9.11.5.P1+dfsg-1 ii libirs-export161 1:9.11.5.P1+dfsg-1 ii libisc-export1100 1:9.11.5.P1+dfsg-1 ii lsb-base 10.2018112800 Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server recommends: ii isc-dhcp-common 4.4.1-2 ii policycoreutils 2.8-1 Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server suggests: pn isc-dhcp-server-ldap <none> pn policykit-1 <none> -- debconf information: isc-dhcp-server/interfaces:
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 4.4.3-P1-8+rm Dear submitter, as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1143544 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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