kea crash

dwight

rebooted my netget after all connections frooze. Now i get this errors and kea wont start. But i get leases so connections works. I dont have any static mappings

ERROR [kea-dhcp4.dhcp4.0x12efa812000] DHCP4_INIT_FAIL failed to initialize Kea server: configuration error using file '/usr/local/etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf': cannot lock socket lockfile, /tmp/kea4-ctrl-socket.lock, : Resource temporarily unavailable

Gertjan

@dwight

I thought that was solved by now. You are using 23.04 ?

If non ... stop kea, wipe "/tmp/kea4-ctrl-socket.lock" and start kea. (and upgrade ^^)

dwight

@Gertjan im using 23.09. But il try that. Thx

dwight

@Gertjan that worked. Thank you

dwight

@Gertjan said in kea crash:

/tmp/kea4-ctrl-socket.lock

UPDATE:
Got a new gateway ip and this happened again.
Deleting /tmp/kea4-ctrl-socket.lock worked but seems the issue isnt completely resolved

Gertjan

@dwight said in kea crash:

im using 23.09.

@dwight said in kea crash:

Got a new gateway ip and this happened again.
Deleting /tmp/kea4-ctrl-socket.lock worked but seems the issue isnt completely resolved

If not done - get 24.03.
Next : check this button :

and save.

Read everything that has been said about kea. All your questions will find an answer.
You will also find answers to the questions you haven't found yet ;)

dwight

@Gertjan Uh are you saying i should set it too use something thats going to go away? Not following

Gertjan

@dwight said in kea crash:

Not following

Noop.
That's not "Not following" - you clearly 'telling me you didn't found the reasoning behind "Take ISC DHCP". or, again, it was explained by many on this forum.

You are not the only one having some issues with KEA.

ISC, who wrote DHCP and the new KEA, explained on their home page, since 2022 ( !!) why.

As of today - IMHO, DHCP has no security issues. As ISC would tell this right now.
Again check yourself the SOURCE - the author - right here : Google => Type ISC DHCP KEA and click on the first link.
But DHCP is now 'deprecated' and the world is in the phase of 'abandoning' DHCP and adopting KEA. This will take a couple of years ...
(let(s hope that Netgate will do it faster - but as KEA has a zliion of option)

Anyway, that's why I said : get DHCP back, and you'll be fine.
Promised

dwight

Just for info if someone has the same problems. I went back to ISC. I had more issues with leases not showing in the gui. Crash of kea but nothing in the log etc. So KEA has some years still in pfsense before i go back...