Describe the bug Through my tinkering with unbound.conf settings to get it working, I am constantly stopping and duplicating my unbound container (I am using Portainer). It seems sporadic when it gives me the "warning unbound is already running as pid 1" in the log.
Expected behavior I typically "kill" the container when trying new conf files and then duplicate. I have now run into the problem where it doesn't matter if I Stop, Kill, Restart, Duplicate, or delete the container and build from scratch, even reboot the device entirely, I still get the PID 1 warning. I also delete the unbound.pid file in my directory and the problem persists. I've seen this in other peoples log files but never has it been addressed directly. I feel like it is a simple issue
Error messages warning unbound is already running as pid 1
EDIT: Here is my conf file. After some more poking around it looks like my problem root.hints. My only problem is that I do in fact have a root.hints in that directory that I update with this "wget https://www.internic.net/domain/named.root -qO- | sudo tee /srv/appdata/unbound/root.hints". While I am generally annoyed that root.hints won't work the way I'd like it to, I think Unbound defaults to the root.hints within /usr/share/dns, is that right?
server: ###########################################################################
BASIC SETTINGS

###########################################################################
# Time to live maximum for RRsets and messages in the cache. If the maximum
# kicks in, responses to clients still get decrementing TTLs based on the
# original (larger) values. When the internal TTL expires, the cache item
# has expired. Can be set lower to force the resolver to query for data
# often, and not trust (very large) TTL values.
cache-max-ttl: 86400

# Time to live minimum for RRsets and messages in the cache. If the minimum
# kicks in, the data is cached for longer than the domain owner intended,
# and thus less queries are made to look up the data. Zero makes sure the
# data in the cache is as the domain owner intended, higher values,
# especially more than an hour or so, can lead to trouble as the data in
# the cache does not match up with the actual data any more.
cache-min-ttl: 300

# Set the working directory for the program.
directory: "/opt/unbound/etc/unbound"

# RFC 6891. Number  of bytes size to advertise as the EDNS reassembly buffer
# size. This is the value put into  datagrams over UDP towards peers.
# The actual buffer size is determined by msg-buffer-size (both for TCP and
# UDP). Do not set higher than that value.
# Default  is  1232 which is the DNS Flag Day 2020 recommendation.
# Setting to 512 bypasses even the most stringent path MTU problems, but
# is seen as extreme, since the amount of TCP fallback generated is
# excessive (probably also for this resolver, consider tuning the outgoing
# tcp number).
# Reduce EDNS reassembly buffer size.
# IP fragmentation is unreliable on the Internet today, and can cause
# transmission failures when large DNS messages are sent via UDP. Even
# when fragmentation does work, it may not be secure; it is theoretically
# possible to spoof parts of a fragmented DNS message, without easy
# detection at the receiving end. Recently, there was an excellent study
# >>> Defragmenting DNS - Determining the optimal maximum UDP response size f>
# by Axel Koolhaas, and Tjeerd Slokker (https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/36/>
# in collaboration with NLnet Labs explored DNS using real world data from the
# the RIPE Atlas probes and the researchers suggested different values for
# IPv4 and IPv6 and in different scenarios. They advise that servers should
# be configured to limit DNS messages sent over UDP to a size that will not
# trigger fragmentation on typical network links. DNS servers can switch
# from UDP to TCP when a DNS response is too big to fit in this limited
# buffer size. This value has also been suggested in DNS Flag Day 2020.
edns-buffer-size: 1232

# Listen to for queries from clients and answer from this network interface
# and port.
interface: 0.0.0.0@53

# Rotates RRSet order in response (the pseudo-random number is taken from
# the query ID, for speed and thread safety).
rrset-roundrobin: yes

# Drop user  privileges after  binding the port.
username: "_unbound"

###########################################################################
# LOGGING
###########################################################################

# Do not print log lines to inform about local zone actions
log-local-actions: no

# Do not print one line per query to the log
log-queries: no

# Do not print one line per reply to the log
log-replies: no

# Do not print log lines that say why queries return SERVFAIL to clients
log-servfail: no

# Further limit logging
logfile: /dev/null

# Only log errors
# If no logfile is specified, syslog is used
# logfile: "/var/log/unbound/unbound.log"
verbosity: 0

###########################################################################
# PRIVACY SETTINGS
###########################################################################

# RFC 8198. Use the DNSSEC NSEC chain to synthesize NXDO-MAIN and other
# denials, using information from previous NXDO-MAINs answers. In other
# words, use cached NSEC records to generate negative answers within a
# range and positive answers from wildcards. This increases performance,
# decreases latency and resource utilization on both authoritative and
# recursive servers, and increases privacy. Also, it may help increase
# resilience to certain DoS attacks in some circumstances.
aggressive-nsec: yes

# Extra delay for timeouted UDP ports before they are closed, in msec.
# This prevents very delayed answer packets from the upstream (recursive)
# servers from bouncing against closed ports and setting off all sort of
# close-port counters, with eg. 1500 msec. When timeouts happen you need
# extra sockets, it checks the ID and remote IP of packets, and unwanted
# packets are added to the unwanted packet counter.
delay-close: 10000

# Prevent the unbound server from forking into the background as a daemon
do-daemonize: no

# Add localhost to the do-not-query-address list.
do-not-query-localhost: no

# Number  of  bytes size of the aggressive negative cache.
neg-cache-size: 4M

# Send minimum amount of information to upstream servers to enhance
# privacy (best privacy).
qname-minimisation: yes

###########################################################################
# SECURITY SETTINGS
###########################################################################
# Only give access to recursion clients from LAN IPs
#access-control: 127.0.0.1/32 allow
access-control: 192.168.0.0/16 allow
access-control: 172.16.0.0/12 allow
#access-control: 10.0.0.0/8 allow
# access-control: fc00::/7 allow
# access-control: ::1/128 allow

# File with trust anchor for  one  zone, which is tracked with RFC5011
# probes.
auto-trust-anchor-file: "var/root.key"

# Enable chroot (i.e, change apparent root directory for the current
# running process and its children)
chroot: "/opt/unbound/etc/unbound"

# Deny queries of type ANY with an empty response.
deny-any: yes

# Harden against algorithm downgrade when multiple algorithms are
# advertised in the DS record.
harden-algo-downgrade: yes

# RFC 8020. returns nxdomain to queries for a name below another name that
# is already known to be nxdomain.
harden-below-nxdomain: yes

# Require DNSSEC data for trust-anchored zones, if such data is absent, the
# zone becomes bogus. If turned off you run the risk of a downgrade attack
# that disables security for a zone.
harden-dnssec-stripped: yes

# Only trust glue if it is within the servers authority.
harden-glue: yes

# Ignore very large queries.
harden-large-queries: yes

# Perform additional queries for infrastructure data to harden the referral
# path. Validates the replies if trust anchors are configured and the zones
# are signed. This enforces DNSSEC validation on nameserver NS sets and the
# nameserver addresses that are encountered on the referral path to the
# answer. Experimental option.
harden-referral-path: no

# Ignore very small EDNS buffer sizes from queries.
harden-short-bufsize: yes

# If enabled the HTTP header User-Agent is not set. Use with  caution
# as some webserver configurations may reject HTTP requests lacking
# this header. If needed, it is better to explicitly set the
# the http-user-agent.
hide-http-user-agent: no

# Refuse id.server and hostname.bind queries
hide-identity: yes

# Refuse version.server and version.bind queries
hide-version: yes

# Set the HTTP User-Agent header for outgoing HTTP requests. If
# set to "", the default, then the package name  and  version  are
#  used.
http-user-agent: "DNS"

# Report this identity rather than the hostname of the server.
identity: "DNS"

# These private network addresses are not allowed to be returned for public
# internet names. Any  occurrence of such addresses are removed from DNS
# answers. Additionally, the DNSSEC validator may mark the  answers  bogus.
# This  protects  against DNS  Rebinding
private-address: 10.0.0.0/8
private-address: 172.16.0.0/12
private-address: 192.168.0.0/16
private-address: 169.254.0.0/16
# private-address: fd00::/8
# private-address: fe80::/10
# private-address: ::ffff:0:0/96

# Enable ratelimiting of queries (per second) sent to nameserver for
# performing recursion. More queries are turned away with an error
# (servfail). This stops recursive floods (e.g., random query names), but
# not spoofed reflection floods. Cached responses are not rate limited by
# this setting. Experimental option.
ratelimit: 1000

# Use this certificate bundle for authenticating connections made to
# outside peers (e.g., auth-zone urls, DNS over TLS connections).
tls-cert-bundle: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

# Set the total number of unwanted replies to eep track of in every thread.
# When it reaches the threshold, a defensive action of clearing the rrset
# and message caches is taken, hopefully flushing away any poison.
# Unbound suggests a value of 10 million.
unwanted-reply-threshold: 10000

# Use 0x20-encoded random bits in the query to foil spoof attempts. This
# perturbs the lowercase and uppercase of query names sent to authority
# servers and checks if the reply still has the correct casing.
# This feature is an experimental implementation of draft dns-0x20.
# Experimental option.
# see https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/unbound-stubby-or-dnscrypt-proxy/9378 f>
use-caps-for-id: no

# Help protect users that rely on this validator for authentication from
# potentially bad data in the additional section. Instruct the validator to
# remove data from the additional section of secure messages that are not
# signed properly. Messages that are insecure, bogus, indeterminate or
# unchecked are not affected.
val-clean-additional: yes

###########################################################################
# PERFORMANCE SETTINGS
###########################################################################
# https://nlnetlabs.nl/documentation/unbound/howto-optimise/
# https://nlnetlabs.nl/news/2019/Feb/05/unbound-1.9.0-released/

# Number of slabs in the infrastructure cache. Slabs reduce lock contention
# by threads. Must be set to a power of 2.
infra-cache-slabs: 4

# Number of incoming TCP buffers to allocate per thread. Default
# is 10. If set to 0, or if do-tcp is "no", no  TCP  queries  from
# clients  are  accepted. For larger installations increasing this
# value is a good idea.
incoming-num-tcp: 10

# Number of slabs in the key cache. Slabs reduce lock contention by
# threads. Must be set to a power of 2. Setting (close) to the number
# of cpus is a reasonable guess.
key-cache-slabs: 4

# Number  of  bytes  size  of  the  message  cache.
# Unbound recommendation is to Use roughly twice as much rrset cache memory
# as you use msg cache memory.
msg-cache-size: 1269552469

# Number of slabs in the message cache. Slabs reduce lock contention by
# threads. Must be set to a power of 2. Setting (close) to the number of
# cpus is a reasonable guess.
msg-cache-slabs: 4

# The number of queries that every thread will service simultaneously. If
# more queries arrive that need servicing, and no queries can be jostled
# out (see jostle-timeout), then the queries are dropped.
# This is best set at half the number of the outgoing-range.
# This Unbound instance was compiled with libevent so it can efficiently
# use more than 1024 file descriptors.
num-queries-per-thread: 4096

# The number of threads to create to serve clients.
# This is set dynamically at run time to effectively use available CPUs
# resources
# One thread should be sufficient, can be increased on beefy machines.
# In reality for most users running on small networks or on a single
# machine, it should be unnecessary to seek performance enhancement
# by increasing num-threads above 1
num-threads: 3

# Number of ports to open. This number of file descriptors can be opened
# per thread.
# This Unbound instance was compiled with libevent so it can efficiently
# use more than 1024 file descriptors.
outgoing-range: 8192

# Number of bytes size of the RRset cache.
# Use roughly twice as much rrset cache memory as msg cache memory
rrset-cache-size: 2539104938

# Number of slabs in the RRset cache. Slabs reduce lock contention by
# threads. Must be set to a power of 2.
rrset-cache-slabs: 4

# Do no insert authority/additional sections into response messages when
# those sections are not required. This reduces response size
# significantly, and may avoid TCP fallback for some responses. This may
# cause a slight speedup.
minimal-responses: yes

# # Fetch the DNSKEYs earlier in the validation process, when a DS record
# is encountered. This lowers the latency of requests at the expense of
# little more CPU usage.
# Perform prefetching of close to expired message cache entries
# This only applies to domains that have been frequently queried
prefetch: yes

# Fetch the DNSKEYs earlier in the validation process, when a DS record is
# encountered. This lowers the latency of requests at the expense of little
# more CPU usage.
prefetch-key: yes

# Have unbound attempt to serve old responses from cache with a TTL of 0 in
# the response without waiting for the actual resolution to finish. The
# actual resolution answer ends up in the cache later on.
serve-expired: yes

# Open dedicated listening sockets for incoming queries for each thread and
# try to set the SO_REUSEPORT socket option on each socket. May distribute
# incoming queries to threads more evenly.
so-reuseport: yes

###########################################################################
# LOCAL ZONE
###########################################################################

# Include file for local-data and local-data-ptr
#include: /opt/unbound/etc/unbound/a-records.conf
#include: /opt/unbound/etc/unbound/srv-records.conf

###########################################################################
# FORWARD ZONE
###########################################################################

#include: /opt/unbound/etc/unbound/forward-records.conf

###########################################################################
# WILDCARD INCLUDE
###########################################################################
#include: "/srv/appdata/unbound/pihole.conf"

###########################################################################
# INCLUDING PIHOLE.CONF SPECIFIC DETAILS HERE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T
# MAKE SENSE TO MANAGE TWO CONF FILES
###########################################################################
do-ip4: yes
do-udp: yes
do-tcp: yes

# Can set this to yes if you have IPv6 but I don't
do-ip6: no

# You want to leave this to no unless you have -native- IPv6. With 6to4
# and Terredo tunnels your web browser should favor IPv6 for the same
# reasons
prefer-ip6: no

# Use this only when you downloaded the list of primary root servers!
# If you use the default dns-root-data package unbound will find it
# automatically
root-hints: "/srv/appdata/unbound/root.hints"
remote-control: control-enable: no
MatthewVance / unbound-docker

how to resolve 'warning unbound is already running as pid 1' #121

BASIC SETTINGS
