[Pdns-users] Can't start pdns 4.x on Debian after install from pdns repo

[Aki Tuomi]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:14:14PM -0400, jim at archer.net wrote:
> Hi All…
> 
> I just installed pdns 4.x on Debian Jesse. I followed the instructions on the wen site and the package appeared to install correctly, but I get the error pasted below when I try to start it. I am trying to use it with Postgres 9. Googling revealed that I should comment out a module line in the conf file, but my conf file does not have that line.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> -- Unit pdns.service has begun starting up.
> Mar 31 22:04:08 db-1 pdns_server[19685]: Mar 31 22:04:08 Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom'
> Mar 31 22:04:08 db-1 pdns_server[19685]: Mar 31 22:04:08 Loading '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pdns/libgpgsqlbackend.so'
> Mar 31 22:04:08 db-1 pdns_server[19685]: Mar 31 22:04:08 Unable to load module '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pdns/libgpgsqlbackend.so': /usr/lib/x86_64-l
> Mar 31 22:04:08 db-1 pdns_server[19685]: Mar 31 22:04:08 DNSBackend unable to load module in gpgsql
> Mar 31 22:04:08 db-1 systemd[1]: pdns.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Mar 31 22:04:08 db-1 systemd[1]: Failed to start PowerDNS Authoritative Server.
> -- Subject: Unit pdns.service has failed
> 

It seems your log is truncated, can you try

systemctl status -l pdns

to see if it gives you full lines?

Aki