DHCP daemon will not start at boot

[shellwig]

I had to reinstall my DockStar after a U-Boot update went wrong. Everything is back up except my DHCP server will not start at boot. I did the systemctl enable dhcpd4 and upon reboot systemctl status dhcpd4 returns:

â dhcpd4.service - IPv4 DHCP server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpd4.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 1969-12-31 19:00:19 EST; 44 years 6 months ago
Process: 118 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dhcpd -4 -q -pf /run/dhcpd4.pid (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Dec 31 19:00:17 ns01 dhcpd[118]: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server 4.3.0
Dec 31 19:00:17 ns01 dhcpd[118]: Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems Consortium.
Dec 31 19:00:17 ns01 dhcpd[118]: All rights reserved.
Dec 31 19:00:17 ns01 dhcpd[118]: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Dec 31 19:00:17 ns01 dhcpd[118]: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file.
Dec 31 19:00:17 ns01 dhcpd[118]: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file.
Dec 31 19:00:17 ns01 dhcpd[118]: Wrote 10 leases to leases file.
Dec 31 19:00:19 ns01 systemd[1]: dhcpd4.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Dec 31 19:00:19 ns01 systemd[1]: Failed to start IPv4 DHCP server.
Dec 31 19:00:19 ns01 systemd[1]: Unit dhcpd4.service entered failed state.


systemctl start dhcpd4 works fine afterwards so I think it is having a problem with the time not being synchronized yet. This was not a problem prior to the rebuild which had been patched up over a year so I am probably missing one simple thing.

[WarheadsSE]

You may need to add a dependency on ntpdate, or something of the ilk.

[shellwig]

Thanks Warhead, that put me on the right track; the new install did not add the ntp user or group.