[BR]: Fresh Debian Bookworm install won't start

[jameskimmel]

Environment:

• Fail2Ban version : v1.0.2
• OS, including release name/version : Debian 12 bookworm
• Fail2Ban installed via OS/distribution mechanisms
• You have not applied any additional foreign patches to the codebase
• Some customizations were done to the configuration (provide details below is so)

The issue:

Fresh Debian Bookworm install won't start.

Steps to reproduce

Fresh Debian 12 installation.
sudo apt install fail2ban
sudo systemctl status fail2ban shows failed

Expected behavior

sudo systemctl status fail2ban should show active

Observed behavior

output from systemctl status fail2ban

 fail2ban.service - Fail2Ban Service
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fail2ban.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2023-09-15 12:34:46 CEST; 1min 47s ago
   Duration: 71ms
       Docs: man:fail2ban(1)
    Process: 1027 ExecStart=/usr/bin/fail2ban-server -xf start (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
   Main PID: 1027 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
        CPU: 68ms

Sep 15 12:34:46 jelly systemd[1]: Started fail2ban.service - Fail2Ban Service.
Sep 15 12:34:46 jelly fail2ban-server[1027]: 2023-09-15 12:34:46,418 fail2ban.configreader   [1027]: WARNING 'allowipv6' not defined in 'Definition'. Using default one: 'auto'
Sep 15 12:34:46 jelly fail2ban-server[1027]: 2023-09-15 12:34:46,427 fail2ban                [1027]: ERROR   Failed during configuration: Have not found any log file for sshd jail
Sep 15 12:34:46 jelly fail2ban-server[1027]: 2023-09-15 12:34:46,428 fail2ban                [1027]: ERROR   Async configuration of server failed
Sep 15 12:34:46 jelly systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Sep 15 12:34:46 jelly systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Any additional information

Log is empty. Please let me know if I can provide additional informations.

Setting sshd in /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/defaults-debian.conf to no mitigates the problem, but I wonder why this is not the default?

[sebres]

Dup of #3292
See #3292 (comment) for a solution.