Why are you trying to get a DHCP lease...
I am not 
The Pi-hole installation script causes this without my intervention. As you can see in my screenie from the eth0 config, there is a static config. But Raspbian is still requesting (read: spamming) dhcp. And now I cannot get eth0 back to normal operation again, even if I set all fields empty (automatic), or re-set them back to static values, eth0 still keeps spamming. Uninstalling Pi-hole does not help either.
/etc/dhcpcd.conf : /etc/dhcpcd.conf - Pastebin.com
I have posted in Raspberry Pi forums, but the post is still awaiting approval.
(This forum has a lot of restrictions to new users. I cannot add more links to the original post, so I'll dump new info here)
- Another user is reporting identical installation problems, even in context with the Feb Raspbian update: Raspbian: FTL Engine installation failure, Feb 2020. So this is clearly not a one-off unique problem with my setup/hardware.