Comment 5 for bug 94804

In gutsy, no error displayed.

After configuring dhcp and restarting the service, I started a thin client which booted ok and ran several applications. After a server reboot, shcp had not restarted.

I attempted to start it manually thus:
"/etc/init.d/dhcp-server start" (noquotes)

The response:
"dhcpd self-test failed. Please fix the config file.
The error was: " (noquotes and no actuall error)

no entries were generated in syslog by this event.

/etc/init.d/dhcp3-server already contains
"/usr/sbin/dhcpd3 -t -cf $CONFIG_FILE 2>&1| sed '1,4d'" (noquotes)

reverted to :
"/usr/sbin/dhcpd3 -t -q -cf $CONFIG_FILE" (noquotes)

Displayed error:
"The error was:
drop_privileges: could not set group id: Operation not permitted" (noquotes)

Thus a perfect reproduction of dougfractal's result