fails to start under openvz with venet devices
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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oidentd (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
:$ sudo apt-get install oidentd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
oidentd is already the newest version (2.5.0-1).
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 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 oidentd (2.5.0-1) ...
Job for oidentd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status oidentd.service" and "journalctl -xeu oidentd.service" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript oidentd, action "start" failed.
● oidentd.service - RFC 1413 compliant ident daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2023-01-18 19:07:56 UTC; 8ms ago
Process: 681 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c exec /usr/sbin/oidentd -S ${OIDENT_OPTIONS} -u "${OIDENT_USER}" -g "${OIDENT_GROUP}" `[ "${OIDENT_
Jan 18 19:03:27 systemd[1]: oidentd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 18 19:03:27 systemd[1]: Failed to start RFC 1413 compliant ident daemon.
Jan 18 19:03:30 systemd[1]: oidentd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jan 18 19:03:30 systemd[1]: oidentd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 18 19:03:30 systemd[1]: Failed to start RFC 1413 compliant ident daemon.
Jan 18 19:07:56 systemd[1]: oidentd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 18 19:07:56 systemd[1]: oidentd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 18 19:07:56 systemd[1]: Failed to start RFC 1413 compliant ident daemon.
dpkg: error processing package oidentd (--configure):
installed oidentd package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
oidentd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
/lib/systemd/
:$ ip route show
default dev venet0 scope link
Additional logic needs to be included in ExecStart
You can get around this by supplying an actual ip but this is only a quick fix to get the service running.
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