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[Ian McMichael <1186662@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've given up with my solution in #9 as it did not work.  I'm still
using 14.04 LTS systems and now employ the following fix instead:

service isc-dhcp-server stop
setfacl -dm u:dhcpd:rwx /var/lib/dhcp
setfacl -m u:dhcpd:rwx /var/lib/dhcp
service isc-dhcp-server start

Note: For this to work you must have acl support on the root filesystem
(assuming that's where /var/lib/dhcp lives on your configuration).  This
is a matter of adding the "acl" option to the mount line in /etc/fstab.

I have been running this for a couple of months now and it seems to do
the trick on several servers.

Hope it helps someone?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1186662

Title:
  isc-dhcp-server fails to renew lease file

Status in isc-dhcp package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in isc-dhcp source package in Trusty:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After raring upgrade, the dhcp server fails to renew lease file when
  it tries to (about every hour).

  The syslog says:
  dhcpd: Can't create new lease file: Permission denied

  It looks like a permission problem, because

  # chown -R dhcpd:dhcpd /var/lib/dhcp

  the above command temporarily solves the issue, until dhcpd is
  restarted: at that time, the ownership of the directory and the lease
  file is set back to root:root.

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