Comment 0 for bug 1778073

I installed today dnsmasq and I use resolvconf in background.

Problem is, that systemd takes 1 minute or so and than reports:

root@proxy:~# service dnsmasq status

 dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/dnsmasq.service.d
           50-dnsmasq-$named.conf, 50-insserv.conf-$named.conf
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Do 2018-06-21 15:58:13 CEST; 2min 10s ago
  Process: 3295 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq systemd-stop-resolvconf (code=killed, signal=TERM)
  Process: 3865 ExecStartPost=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq systemd-start-resolvconf (code=killed, signal=TERM)
  Process: 3837 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq systemd-exec (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 3825 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/dnsmasq --test (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 3862 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Jun 21 15:56:43 proxy dnsmasq[3862]: Benutze Namensserver 192.168.23.1#53
Jun 21 15:56:43 proxy dnsmasq[3865]: * Awakening mail retriever agent:
Jun 21 15:56:43 proxy dnsmasq[3865]: ...done.
Jun 21 15:56:43 proxy postfix[3951]: Postfix is running with backwards-compatible default settings
Jun 21 15:56:43 proxy postfix[3951]: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html for details
Jun 21 15:56:43 proxy postfix[3951]: To disable backwards compatibility use "postconf compatibility_level=2" and "postfix reload"
Jun 21 15:58:13 proxy systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Start-post operation timed out. Stopping.
Jun 21 15:58:13 proxy systemd[1]: Failed to start dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.
Jun 21 15:58:13 proxy systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 21 15:58:13 proxy systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.

when I look into the start script /etc/init.d/dnsmasq there is a func systemd-start-resolvconf which points to start-resolvconf.

There is this part:

        for interface in $DNSMASQ_EXCEPT
        do
                [ $interface = lo ] && return
        done

Before I had not defined DNSMASQ_EXCEPT in /etc/defaults/dnsmasq. Problem is, that this part MUST be faulty! When I commend it out, I can start dnsmasq! It looks like it loops forever there?!

Also if I define DNSMASQ_EXCEPT to my listen interface, it works - but is is really needed?

I found a other user which had the same problem:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871958

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: dnsmasq 2.75-1ubuntu0.16.04.4 [modified: etc/default/dnsmasq]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25~16.04.1-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jun 21 16:12:14 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-27 (479 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.8)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: dnsmasq
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.default.dnsmasq: 2018-06-21T16:07:24.818774