i’ve done a routine upgrade to Buster on some server and all went fine… except bind9 no longer started.
every attempt to restart it ended up with long waiting and an error message:
root@xyz:~# service bind9 start Job for bind9.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status bind9.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. root@xyz:~# journalctl -xe Aug 16 18:38:25 xyz systemd[1]: bind9.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. -- Subject: Unit failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- The unit bind9.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'timeout'. Aug 16 18:38:25 xyz systemd[1]: Failed to start BIND Domain Name Server. -- Subject: A start job for unit bind9.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- A start job for unit bind9.service has finished with a failure. -- -- The job identifier is 15979 and the job result is failed.
logs did not contain anything interesting – actually they showed that bind would start and then after ~ a minute was shut down. i’ve ruled out that the issue was caused by my configuration – the server did not start even with the default content of /etc/bind.
the culprit was an old systemd override file that i’ve created ages ago to pass some parameter to named. after removing /etc/systemd/system/bind9.service.d/local.conf and systemctl daemon-reload the dns server started.
Hola, lograste resolver? me pasa lo mismo.
yes, i did. see the last paragraph of the post – that was it in my case.