Bug#383759: exim4-config: Fails to upgrade/install

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:27:25PM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> When upgrading the exim4 packages I receive the following error:
> Setting up exim4-config (4.62-4) ...
> /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf: line 434: 14851 Illegal instruction
> ${EXIM} -C "${UPEX4C_outputfile}.tmp" -bV >/dev/null
> Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp
> not installing /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to 
> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
> dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> 
> I have purged them and tried a fresh install, but the error is the
> same.  Perhaps it is worth noting that this happens only on one of my
> machines which is running Debian testing, and it is an old one (Cyrix
> 100 MHz).

Illegal Instruction? That sounds like a compiler issue with your exim
binary.

Can you please try this:

# /usr/sbin/exim4 -C /dev/null -bV
Exim version 4.63 #1 built 15-Aug-2006 20:40:36
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September  6, 2005)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /dev/null

This is output of an exim4-daemon-light. Your output should be _very_
similiar.

Greetings
Marc

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