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

[Rudy Godoy Guillén]

On 23/03/2008 at 14:09 Marc Haber wrote...

Hi,

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

Yes, sorry for that.

> > 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?
> 

I'm running dpkg version 1.14.16.6 and lsb-base 3.2-4

Yes, the exim daemon was running and currently I'm using it, however
it still cannot stop properly the daemon on shutdown.

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

Apparently it is, however I see a couple of differences on this use
case. First, we are using different versions, mine are more up to
date. Second, the only use case when I faced this bug was when trying
to install postfix as MTA.

Either stoping/starting issuing invoke-rc.d works fine, but pidfile is
left, however it creates another (updates it) after start.

For my use case I can add that when dpkg removes exim4-base it stops
the daemon, then when it tries to remove exim4-daemon-ligth it also
tries to stop failing since its no longer running (confirmed by
ps aux). Then the removal process fails rendering postfix unable to
install and the MTA in a broken state until I put back exim4 packages.


regards

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