Bug#477562: exim4-daemon-light: init script fails to start: incompatible command-line options or arguments

[Frans Pop]

Package: exim4-daemon-light
Version: 4.69-2+b1
Severity: serious

Got this error during and after upgrade. Have not checked what the
actual incompatibility is, sorry.

Cheers,
FJP

Setting up exim4-base (4.69-2+b1) ...
Setting up exim4-daemon-light (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-light (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

 $ sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 start
 + set -e
 + '[' -x /lib/lsb/init-functions ']'
 + . /lib/lsb/init-functions
 ++ FANCYTTY=
 ++ '[' -e /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh ']'
 ++ true
 + '[' -n '' ']'
 + LANG=C
 + export LANG
 + QUEUERUNNER=combined
 + QUEUEINTERVAL=30m
 + UPEX4OPTS=
 + PIDFILE=/var/run/exim4/exim.pid
 + QRPIDFILE=/var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid
 + '[' -f /etc/default/exim4 ']'
 + . /etc/default/exim4
 ++ EX4DEF_VERSION=
 ++ QUEUERUNNER=combined
 ++ QUEUEINTERVAL=30m
 ++ COMMONOPTIONS=
 ++ QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS=
 ++ QFLAGS=
 ++ SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS=
 + '[' -f /etc/inetd.conf ']'
 + grep -E -q '^[[:space:]]*((\*|[[:alnum:].-]+):)?smtp' /etc/inetd.conf
 + DAEMON=/usr/sbin/exim4
 + NAME=exim4
 + test -x /usr/lib/exim4/exim4
 + case "$1" in
 + log_daemon_msg 'Starting MTA'
 + '[' -z 'Starting MTA' ']'
 + '[' -z '' ']'
 + echo -n 'Starting MTA:'
 Starting MTA:+ return
 + upex4conf
 + UPEX4CONF=update-exim4.conf
 + OLDIFS='
 '
 + IFS=:
 + for p in '$PATH'
 + '[' -x /usr/local/sbin/update-exim4.conf ']'
 + for p in '$PATH'
 + '[' -x /usr/local/bin/update-exim4.conf ']'
 + for p in '$PATH'
 + '[' -x /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf ']'
 + IFS='
 '
 + /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf
 + return 0
 + isconfigvalid
 + /usr/sbin/exim4 -bV
 + start_exim
 + '[' -e /var/run/exim4 ']'
 + case ${QUEUERUNNER} in
 + start_daemon -p /var/run/exim4/exim.pid /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m ''
 '' ''
 + local force nice pidfile exec i
 + force=0
 + nice=0
 + pidfile=/dev/null
 + OPTIND=1
 + getopts fn:p: opt
 + case "$opt" in
 + pidfile=/var/run/exim4/exim.pid
 + getopts fn:p: opt
 + shift 2
 + '[' /usr/sbin/exim4 = -- ']'
 + exec=/usr/sbin/exim4
 + shift
 + '[' 0 = 1 ']'
 + '[' /var/run/exim4/exim.pid ']'
 + /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --nicelevel 0 --quiet --exec
 /usr/sbin/exim4 --oknodo --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid -- -bd -q30m
 '' '' ''
 exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 12-Apr-2008 10:30:49
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb 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 /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='satellite'
dc_other_hostnames='qnap.fjphome.nl'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost='qnap.fjphome.nl'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='smtp.fjphome.nl'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:qnap.fjphome.nl

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: arm (armv5tel)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc9
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4-daemon-light 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  libpcre3                      7.6-2      Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi

exim4-daemon-light recommends no packages.

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