Why can I not load distirbuted lease configs due to err '[distributed_leases] stanza does not exist'?

[maurizio_zito]

Start Up issue 

Validating databases (splunkd validatedb) failed with code '1'.  If you cannot resolve the issue(s) above after consulting documentation,

Error after upgrade to last version

thanks

Maurizio

[thashmi]

Were we able to solve the problem?? If yes please share the resolution.