Bug#477236: exim4-daemon-heavy: restart of exim4 fails after pdate

[Berthold Cogel]

Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
Version: 4.69-2+b1
Severity: important


Update of exim and restart fails with error messages.

acer01:/etc# LANG=C dselect
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up exim4-daemon-heavy (4.69-2+b1) ...
Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-heavy (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   exim4-daemon-heavy
   E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
   Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
   packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
   or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
   above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall
   again
   Press enter to continue.

   Setting up exim4-daemon-heavy (4.69-2+b1) ...
   Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
   invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
   dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-heavy (--configure):
    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     exim4-daemon-heavy

     installation script returned error exit status 100.
     Press <enter> to continue.


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 12-Apr-2008 09:56:12
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS move_frozen_messages 
Content_Scanning Old_Demime
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb 
dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql sqlite
Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl dovecot plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram 
redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
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'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to replace
# the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='local'
dc_other_hostnames='localhost.localdomain'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost=''
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname=''
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:localhost.localdomain

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.4 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4-daemon-heavy depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.21          Debian configuration 
management sy
ii  exim4-base               4.69-2+b1       support files for all Exim 
MTA (v4
ii  libc6                    2.7-10          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.6                 4.6.21-7        Berkeley v4.6 Database 
Libraries [
ii  libgnutls26              2.2.2-1         the GNU TLS library - 
runtime libr
ii  libldap-2.4-2            2.4.7-6.2       OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libmysqlclient15off      5.0.51a-3       MySQL database client library
ii  libpam0g                 0.99.7.1-6      Pluggable Authentication 
Modules l
ii  libpcre3                 7.6-2           Perl 5 Compatible Regular 
Expressi
ii  libperl5.8               5.8.8-12        Shared Perl library
ii  libpq5                   8.3.1-1         PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libsasl2-2               2.1.22.dfsg1-19 Cyrus SASL - authentication 
abstra
ii  libsqlite3-0             3.5.7-2         SQLite 3 shared library

exim4-daemon-heavy recommends no packages.

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