[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a

[john doe]

On 7/10/23 17:20, dnsmasqyq.xpt at neverbox.com wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 11:17 AM Tong Sun <dnsmasqyq.xpt at neverbox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I'm installing in Debian the normal way with
>>
>> sudo apt install -y dnsmasq
>>
>> and it fails out of the box with:
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dnsmasq.service -> /lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service.
>> Job for dnsmasq.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
>> See "systemctl status dnsmasq.service" and "journalctl -xeu dnsmasq.service" for details.
>> invoke-rc.d: initscript dnsmasq, action "start" failed.
>> x dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server
>>       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
>>       Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2023-07-10 10:52:02 EDT; 14ms ago
>>      Process: 506097 ExecStartPre=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq checkconfig (code=exited, status=127)
>>          CPU: 14ms
>>
>> Jul 10 10:52:02 coral systemd[1]: Starting dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server...
>> Jul 10 10:52:02 coral systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a

What Debian release are you using and what dnsmasq version do you have?

I would also file a bugreport against this Debian package.

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John Doe