Bug#396944: exim4-daemon-light: upgrading causes panic

[Bruce Sass]

Package: exim4-daemon-light
Version: 4.63-9
Severity: normal


The last couple of upgrades have resulted in the following being sent
to the paniclog...

2006-11-03 02:05:38 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv4) failed: Address alre
ady in use: daemon abandoned

...about the time an upgrade was in progress, yet...

bsass at onegee:~$ ps aux | grep exim
102       9302  0.0  0.1   5352  1000 ?        Ss   Oct28   0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m

...would seem to indicate that it is a transitory situation caused by
the upgrade process.

The result is daily...

-e Subject: exim paniclog on onegee has non-zero size
To: root

exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on onegee has non-zero size, mail system might be broken

...messages when there is no problem.

Disabling paniclog monitoring is not a reasonable option because I want
to be advised if there is a problem, and using a regexp to filter out
the noisy message could result in valid problems being missed.


- Bruce

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-onegee
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages exim4-daemon-light depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.8       Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                   4.63-9      support files for all exim MTA (v4
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.3                     4.3.29-6    Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [
ii  libgnutls13                  1.4.4-2     the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libpcre3                     6.7-1       Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi

exim4-daemon-light recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  exim4-daemon-light/drec: