2.4.5 upgrade: dhcpd not found

Spookje · Mar 31, 2020, 3:06 PM

Well, funny day...

Just updated pfSense from 2.4.4-p3 to 2.4.5 and i'm finding with the following:

DHCPD Service not running,
DHCP Logging "empty" (nothing about DHCPD) also nothing after restarting the service.
and finally in the system log:

/status_services.php: The command '/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd -user dhcpd -group _dhcp -chroot /var/dhcpd -cf /etc/dhcpd.conf -pf /var/run/dhcpd.pid igb1 lagg0.15 lagg0.20 lagg0.25 lagg0 lagg0.30 lagg0.12' returned exit code '127', the output was 'sh: /usr/local/sbin/dhcpd: not found'

So, DHCPD is gone... does any one know a way to restore DHCPD without reinstalling pfSense completely?

jimp · Mar 31, 2020, 3:11 PM

If that's missing, then it is likely that more things are missing.

Connect via ssh or the console and open a shell prompt, then run pfSense-upgrade -d and see what it reports.

The fastest and most reliable thing to do would be to grab a backup and then reinstall+restore using the 2.4.5 installer.

Spookje · Mar 31, 2020, 3:26 PM

[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@RT01.]/root: pfSense-upgrade -d
>>> Updating repositories metadata... 
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.txz: . done
Fetching packagesite.txz: . done
Processing entries: . done
pfSense-core repository update completed. 7 packages processed.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.txz: . done
Fetching packagesite.txz: .......... done
Processing entries: .......... done
pfSense repository update completed. 522 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
Your packages are up to date
[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@RT01]/root:

mmm, it doesn't report much...
any other ideas?
otherwise i try a clean 2.4.5 install with the config backup...

jimp · Mar 31, 2020, 3:28 PM

A reinstall+restore would be the best thing to do. You could do things like pkg check -d and so on which may also help, but the best way to ensure a consistent system at that point would be reinstall+restore.

Spookje · Mar 31, 2020, 3:35 PM

Jep, Reinstall it is...
Thanks for the support

[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@RT01]/root: pkg check -d
Checking all packages: 100%
[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@RT01]/root: pkg check -s
Checking all packages:   0%
avahi-app-0.7_2: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/avahi-browse-domains.1.gz
avahi-app-0.7_2: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/avahi-browse.1.gz
avahi-app-0.7_2: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/avahi-publish-address.1.gz

[... 2400 lines later ...]

xinetd-2.3.15_2: missing file /usr/local/man/man8/xinetd.log.8.gz
Checking all packages:  99%
zip-3.0_1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/zip.1.gz
zip-3.0_1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/zipcloak.1.gz
zip-3.0_1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/zipnote.1.gz
zip-3.0_1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/zipsplit.1.gz
Checking all packages: 100%
[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@RT01]/root:

jimp · Mar 31, 2020, 3:40 PM

The pkg check -s errors for man page files are normal/expected.

Then it must think the dhcp package isc-dhcp44-server is installed, but it's missing files, which is odd. It could be that you have a filesystem issue.

I'd grab a backup and reinstall. You could forcefully reinstall all packages but that wouldn't fix a filesystem issue and would take a long time. So a lot of time+effort for possibly less benefit than a relatively quick reinstall.

Spookje · Mar 31, 2020, 3:56 PM

I reinstalled "isc-dhcp44-server" (pkg install --force isc-dhcp44-server) and DHCPD is running again, This is giving me a bit more room to prep the file-system check and the reinstall, which i will do very soon, just to be sure.

thanks for the support!!!

PS, i removed lines contaning "man/" of "doc/" out of the other log:

[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@RT01]/root: pkg check -s
Checking all packages:   0%
Checking all packages:   1%
Checking all packages:   1%
Checking all packages:   2%
Checking all packages:   4%
Checking all packages:   6%
curl-7.67.0: missing file /usr/local/share/aclocal/libcurl.m4
Checking all packages:   7%
dbus-1.12.16: missing file /usr/local/share/xml/dbus-1/busconfig.dtd
dbus-1.12.16: missing file /usr/local/share/xml/dbus-1/introspect.dtd
Checking all packages:  12%
[...]
Checking all packages:  16%
glib-2.56.3_7,1: missing file /usr/local/share/aclocal/glib-2.0.m4
glib-2.56.3_7,1: missing file /usr/local/share/aclocal/glib-gettext.m4
glib-2.56.3_7,1: missing file /usr/local/share/aclocal/gsettings.m4
Checking all packages:  18%
[...]
Checking all packages:  25%
Checking all packages:  26%
libgcrypt-1.8.5: missing file /usr/local/share/aclocal/libgcrypt.m4
Checking all packages:  26%
libgpg-error-1.36: missing file /usr/local/share/aclocal/gpg-error.m4
libgpg-error-1.36: missing file /usr/local/share/aclocal/gpgrt.m4
Checking all packages:  27%
Checking all packages:  27%
Checking all packages:  28%
Checking all packages:  29%
libmcrypt-2.5.8_3: missing file /usr/local/share/aclocal/libmcrypt.m4
Checking all packages:  30%
Checking all packages:  31%
Checking all packages:  32%
libxml2-2.9.10: missing file /usr/local/share/aclocal/libxml.m4
Checking all packages:  32%
libxslt-1.1.34: missing file /usr/local/share/aclocal/libxslt.m4
Checking all packages:  33%
Checking all packages:  36%
Checking all packages:  39%
mysql57-client-5.7.29: missing file /usr/local/share/aclocal/mysql.m4
Checking all packages:  39%
[...]
Checking all packages:  99%
Checking all packages: 100%
[2.4.5-RELEASE][root@RT01]/root:

jiggier · May 10, 2020, 6:22 PM

Just wanted to add that also have the same issue. DHCP fails to start because it is missing. However, pkg install --force isc-dhcp44-server did not help.

Update:
By saying the update did not work, pkg did not install the DHCP. Then, pkg started complaining about missing objects. Did pkg bootstrap -f and no result. Had to repeat couple of times, until it solved the issue. Then reinstalling DHCP worked just like for Spookje.

reefland · May 10, 2020, 6:22 PM

I just upgraded from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5 today and ran into the same problem of dhcp service not starting. I had this entry in my system logs:

/status_services.php: The command '/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd -user dhcpd -group _dhcp -chroot /var/dhcpd -cf /etc/dhcpd.conf -pf /var/run/dhcpd.pid igb1 igb2 igb3' returned exit code '127', the output was 'sh: /usr/local/sbin/dhcpd: not found'

As suggested above, reinstalling DHCPD from Diagnostics > Command Prompt > Shell Command:
pkg install -y --force isc-dhcp44-server

Once that completed, DHCP service started right up.

patrick0525 · Jun 6, 2020, 12:49 PM

It worked. Nice job.