[Kea-users] Kea DHCP4 stopping by itself, one or more hook libraries failed to load

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 22:43:29 +0000
Corby Stephens via Kea-users <kea-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:

> No human is issuing the stop service command. Does it periodically
> restart itself? The system didn't reboot. The service was running for
> five days.

As near as I can tell, systemd regularly reloads or shuts down and
restarts a number of units, including kea, apache, and named. Is that
what you see?

(Lots of unwrapped long lines here.)

Oct 01 16:04:25 issola systemd[1]: Stopping kea-dhcp-ddns-server.service - Kea DDNS Service...
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola systemd[1]: kea-dhcp-ddns-server.service: Deactivated successfully.
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola systemd[1]: Stopped kea-dhcp-ddns-server.service - Kea DDNS Service.
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola systemd[1]: Started kea-dhcp-ddns-server.service - Kea DDNS Service.
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola systemd[1]: Stopping kea-dhcp4-server.service - Kea IPv4 DHCP daemon...
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola systemd[1]: kea-dhcp4-server.service: Deactivated successfully.
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola systemd[1]: Stopped kea-dhcp4-server.service - Kea IPv4 DHCP daemon.
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola systemd[1]: kea-dhcp4-server.service: Consumed 13.829s CPU time, 6.9M memory peak.
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola systemd[1]: Started kea-dhcp4-server.service - Kea IPv4 DHCP daemon.
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola (hcp-ddns)[183060]: kea-dhcp-ddns-server.service: ConfigurationDirectory 'kea' already exists but the mode is different. (File system: 750 ConfigurationDirectoryMode: 755)
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola (ea-dhcp4)[183066]: kea-dhcp4-server.service: ConfigurationDirectory 'kea' already exists but the mode is different. (File system: 750 ConfigurationDirectoryMode: 755)
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola kea-dhcp-ddns[183060]: 2025-10-01 16:04:25.986 INFO  [kea-dhcp-ddns.dctl/183060.139741197034688] DCTL_STARTING DhcpDdns starting, pid: 183060, version: 2.6.3 (stable)
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola kea-dhcp4[183066]: 2025-10-01 16:04:25.996 INFO  [kea-dhcp4.dhcp4/183066.140240207910848] DHCP4_STARTING Kea DHCPv4 server version 2.6.3 (stable) starting
Oct 01 16:04:25 issola kea-dhcp4[183066]: 2025-10-01 16:04:25.997 INFO  [kea-dhcp4.commands/183066.140240207910848] COMMAND_RECEIVED Received command 'config-set'



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