Comment 78 for bug 1186662

Yes, I share your frustration. However, the workaround to change the
permissions of the /var/lib/dhcp directory to dhcpd:dhcpd is working for
me. We shouldn't need a workaround, but at least there is one available.

On 2017-04-30 06:54, Emmanuel Proust wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Soon 4 years and still no fix for this issue !
>
> I would like to know any suggestion to make this fixed :
>
> - any Canonical contact to explain that the linux community is used to
> say that Microsoft is very slow to fix bugs...
>
> - any famous community site to inform ubuntu users that such an issue
> still affects 3 LTS versions (12.04 / 14.04 / 16.04) and it is just a
> shame.
>
> - ?
>
> I regret a lot to write such comments but I noticed that nothing
> happens.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1186662
>
> Title:
> isc-dhcp-server fails to renew lease file
>
> Status in isc-dhcp package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in isc-dhcp source package in Trusty:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> After raring upgrade, the dhcp server fails to renew lease file when
> it tries to (about every hour).
>
> The syslog says:
> dhcpd: Can't create new lease file: Permission denied
>
> It looks like a permission problem, because
>
> # chown -R dhcpd:dhcpd /var/lib/dhcp
>
> the above command temporarily solves the issue, until dhcpd is
> restarted: at that time, the ownership of the directory and the lease
> file is set back to root:root.
>
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