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

[Pieter Lexis]

Hi Jim,

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:14:14 -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

Is the pdns-backend-pgsql package installed? If so, please remove the `module-dir` directive from all config files in `/etc/powerdns` and `/etc/powerdns/pdns.d`.

If this does not help, please share the output of `dpkg -l pdns*` and all your config file (without passwords).

Best regards,

Pieter

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Pieter Lexis
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