PDNS stop working after upgrading to Debian 7

Neoon

Hi,

Since i upgraded to debian 7 and update pdns package pdns stop working...

I have nothing in syslog or pdns.log just this here:

root@vserv08:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# /etc/init.d/pdns restart

[ ok ] Restarting PowerDNS Authoritative Name Server: pdns.

root@vserv08:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# /etc/init.d/pdns status

[ ok ] pdns is running: 9293: Child running on pid 9313.

root@vserv08:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# /etc/init.d/pdns status

[ ok ] pdns is running: 9293: Child died with code 1.

root@vserv08:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# /etc/init.d/pdns status

[ ok ] pdns is running: 9293: Child running on pid 9377.

root@vserv08:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# /etc/init.d/pdns status

[ ok ] pdns is running: 9293: Child running on pid 9377.

root@vserv08:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# /etc/init.d/pdns status

[ ok ] pdns is running: 9293: Child died with code 1.

root@vserv08:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# /etc/init.d/pdns status

[ ok ] pdns is running: 9293: Child died with code 1.

root@vserv08:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# /etc/init.d/pdns status

[ ok ] pdns is running: 9293: Child running on pid 9502.

root@vserv08:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# /etc/init.d/pdns status

[ ok ] pdns is running: 9293: Child running on pid 9502.

root@vserv08:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# /etc/init.d/pdns status

[ ok ] pdns is running: 9293: Child running on pid 9565.

root@vserv08:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# /etc/init.d/pdns status

[ ok ] pdns is running: 9293: Child running on pid 9597.

root@vserv08:/etc/powerdns/pdns.d# /etc/init.d/pdns status

[ ok ] pdns is running: 9293: Child died with code 1.

Idk whats going there but.... does anyone experienced the same?

pdns fucked up my day...

Thank you.

Dorkfiles

ouch looks like one hell of a time.

Neoon

Found it... they added in Debian 7 a file called pdns.simplebind

When this file exist it dosent load the configuration from other files so just delete it:

rm /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind

Dorkfiles

Thanks man, +1 I have a deb 6 I've been holding back for a while.. Did you find any other issues when upgrading past the point of the pdns

Neoon

no, working well now btw also disable dnssec if you dont have it activated on your domains otherwise it will also stop working answer.

hostingtalking

Man, I wish I see this before I cost several hours try to put it work after upgrade to debian 7. Why they just simple write a notice at doc or homepage about this change. As which can save many users' lots of times. I think I am not the second one who cost hours to figure it out.

typh0n

Thanks for this simple solution, dude!
I tried to get it working for hours and now I found your thread, tried it and it worked