exim4 broken since recent unsable upgrade - please help

[Oliver Elphick]

I'm writing this from web-based email since my local
email is completely hosed.

Local email is run in conjunction with mailscanner, so
there are two exim4 processes.  The incoming process
is rapidly filling up the logfiles with:

   2005-04-02 07:29:37 50 select() failures: Bad file
descriptor

I've run strace on the process and it is running
select on fd 0. 

I have purged and reinstalled, but that makes no
difference.

Installed packages:
  exim4               4.50-4 
  exim4-base          4.50-4 
  exim4-config        4.50-4  
  exim4-daemon-heavy  4.50-4 
  eximon4             4.50-4 


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.50 #1 built 02-Mar-2005 07:42:40
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52:
(December  3, 2003)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS
Content_Scanning Old_Demime
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch
cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch$Authenticators: cram_md5
cyrus_sasl plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup
manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply
lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Configuration file is
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute
update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames='lfix.co.uk:ruth.lfix.co.uk:linda.lfix.co.uk'
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost='lfix.co.uk'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets='192.168.1.0/24'
dc_smarthost='post.demon.co.uk'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname='false'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
mailname:lfix.co.uk

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

-- debconf information:
* exim4/dc_smarthost: post.demon.co.uk
  exim4/dc_relay_domains:
  exim4/exim3_upgrade: true
* exim4/dc_eximconfig_configtype: mail sent by
smarthost; received via SMTP or $* exim4/dc_readhost:
lfix.co.uk
  exim4/exim4-config-title:
  exim4/dc_noalias_regenerate: false
* exim4/dc_relay_nets: 192.168.1.0/24
* exim4/mailname: lfix.co.uk
* exim4/dc_local_interfaces:
  exim4/dc_minimaldns: false
* exim4/dc_other_hostnames:
lfix.co.uk:ruth.lfix.co.uk:linda.lfix.co.uk
  exim4/no_config: true
* exim4/hide_mailname: false
  exim4/dc_postmaster:
* exim4/use_split_config: true

Config file change:
LOCALDELIVERY=cyrus_delivery

added config files for mailscanner and cyrus21 as
recommended by those packages


Oliver Elphick

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