Bug#476987: exim4-daemon-light: fresh install doesn't work ("start" failed)
Teodor
mteodor at gmail.com
Tue May 6 17:14:34 UTC 2008
Package: exim4-daemon-light Version: 4.69-5+b1
Followup-For: Bug #476987
Unfortunately, a fresh install doesn't work:
t2:~# apt-get -t sid install exim4-daemon-light
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
exim4-daemon-light is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 79 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-5+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
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4:
[..]
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
This is where it fails:
t2:~# EX4DEBUG=1 /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
now debugging /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
+ 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 ']'
+ DAEMON=/usr/sbin/exim4
+ NAME=exim4
+ test -x /usr/lib/exim4/exim4
+ case "$1" in
+ log_daemon_msg 'Stopping MTA for restart'
+ '[' -z 'Stopping MTA for restart' ']'
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ echo -n 'Stopping MTA for restart:'
Stopping MTA for restart:+ return
+ upex4conf
+ UPEX4CONF=update-exim4.conf
+ OLDIFS='
'
+ IFS=:
+ for p in '$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
+ stop_exim
+ '[' -f /var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid ']'
+ '[' -f /var/run/exim4/exim.pid ']'
+ log_end_msg 0
+ '[' -z 0 ']'
+ log_use_fancy_output
+ TPUT=/usr/bin/tput
+ EXPR=/usr/bin/expr
+ '[' -t 1 ']'
+ '[' xxterm '!=' '' ']'
+ '[' xxterm '!=' xdumb ']'
+ '[' -x /usr/bin/tput ']'
+ '[' -x /usr/bin/expr ']'
+ /usr/bin/tput hpa 60
+ /usr/bin/tput setaf 1
+ '[' -z ']'
+ FANCYTTY=1
+ case "$FANCYTTY" in
+ true
++ /usr/bin/tput setaf 1
+ RED=''
++ /usr/bin/tput op
+ NORMAL=''
+ '[' 0 -eq 0 ']'
+ echo .
.
+ return 0
+ sleep 2
+ log_daemon_msg 'Restarting MTA'
+ '[' -z 'Restarting MTA' ']'
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ echo -n 'Restarting MTA:'
Restarting MTA:+ return
+ 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
I could start it manually:
t2:~# /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --nicelevel 0 --quiet --exec
/usr/sbin/exit2:~#
t2:~# pgrep -fl exim
11641 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
Thanks
-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 02-May-2008 12:57:09
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 generate
# exim configuration macros for the configuration file.
#
# 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='internet'
dc_other_hostnames='t2.rdslink.ro'
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='smtp.rdslink.ro'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='false'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:t2.rdslink.ro
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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 4.6.21-6 Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii libgnutls26 2.2.2-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libpcre3 7.4-1+lenny1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
exim4-daemon-light recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
exim4-daemon-light/drec:
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