Bug#472215: exim4-daemon-light: Fails on postrm on removal

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 01:56:44PM -0500, Rudy Godoy wrote:
> When trying to remove exim4-ligth-daemon to install postfix,
> the postrm target fails rendering the system in a bad state
> for subsequent installs/upgrades.
> 
> Probably this is related to #449287 and #453958. The output
> is this (Spanish):

If you want to make things easier for maintainers, please file reports
from an English locale. That's the language we all speak.

> Desinstalando exim4-daemon-light ...
>  * Stopping MTA                                                                 
> /sbin/start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 3150: No such process
> invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "stop" failed.
> dpkg: error al procesar exim4-daemon-light (--remove):

Which versions of dpkg and lsb-base do you have installed? Was an exim
daemon running at the time of your installation?

Is it possible that this bug is a duplicate of #449287?

Greetings
Marc

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