Package: dnsmasq Version: 2.78-1 Severity: grave Tags: upstream After upgrading from systemd 236-3+b1 to 237-1, the service cannot be started anymore getting following error in syslog (Tested on multiple (sid) machines):
Feb 03 10:47:35 pcname systemd[1]: Starting dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server... Feb 03 10:47:35 pcname dnsmasq[2720]: dnsmasq: syntax check OK. Feb 03 10:47:35 pcname dnsmasq[2739]: started, version 2.78 cachesize 150 Feb 03 10:47:35 pcname dnsmasq[2739]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt DBus i18n IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP conntrack ipset auth DNSSEC loop-detect inotif Feb 03 10:47:35 pcname dnsmasq[2739]: read /etc/hosts - 30 addresses Feb 03 10:47:35 pcname systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Permission denied while opening PID file or unsafe symlink chain: /run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.pid Feb 03 10:49:06 pcname systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Start-post operation timed out. Stopping. Feb 03 10:49:06 pcname dnsmasq[2739]: exiting on receipt of SIGTERM Feb 03 10:49:06 pcname systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. Feb 03 10:49:06 pcname systemd[1]: Failed to start dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server. Regards -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dnsmasq depends on: ii dnsmasq-base 2.78-1 ii init-system-helpers 1.51 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 ii netbase 5.4 dnsmasq recommends no packages. Versions of packages dnsmasq suggests: pn resolvconf <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/dnsmasq [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/default/dnsmasq' /etc/dnsmasq.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information