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

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 04:40:01AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On Sat November 4 2006 02:29, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:06:01PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote:
> > > ...would seem to indicate that it is a transitory situation caused
> > > by the upgrade process.
> >
> > Probably. Did killing the existing daemon manually help with starting
> > the new daemon?
> 
> I did not need to restart exim4. I saw the message in the INBOX 
> associated with /var/mail/spool, then ran the ps|grep command you saw 
> the output of.

Anyway, you had an extra daemon running which interfered with your
update.

> The mainlog just prior to the paniclog entry I included shows periodic 
> Start and End queue run messages, 10 socket bind() failures at 30s 
> intervals, then more Start/End queue runs.

Yes, that's exim4's default behavior if it cannot bind to any
configured smtp listening port.

> > > 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.
> >
> > Yes, you'll need to rotate the paniclog away manually. See
> > /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz chapter 2.5.1
> >
> > If the message is continuously being written again and again over and
> > over, you have probably still an old daemon running.
> 
> I understand that, but it doesn't seem right to have to do it after an 
> upgrade if all is well... hence the report.

Yes. I am desparately trying to find out what went wrong on your
system as the issue is not reproducible here and no other users are
reporting this.

> Unfortunately I can not reliably reproduce this bug. Nine attempts at:
> #apt-get --reinstall install exim4-daemon-light
> got me two failures initially then seven successes. I have another box 
> running the light daemon and one running the heavy daemon, neither of 
> them have had a panic.  :-/

I am afraid that then there is nothing to do except tagging this bug
unreproducible and closing it by the end of November.

Greetings
Marc

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