Public bug reported:
Did a do-release-upgrade, this came up at the end.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nova-compute-kvm 2012.1.3+stable-20120827-4d2a4afe-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-29.46-server 3.0.53
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-29-server x86_64
ApportVersion:
I was just entering a bug for this, and it ended up being a duplicate.
The issue is the permissions on the rndc.key (/etc/dhcp3/rndc.key).
If the dhcpd user can't read it, the dhcp3-server fails to start on boot, but
still starts later if called from /etc/init.d or using the service command.