Bug#626273: exim4-base: The last update of exim caused problems and did not run through

Tue May 10 12:13:45 UTC 2011

Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.72-6+squeeze1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Ive done an apt-get update. The system told me that exim4-base,
exim4-daemon-light, ... should be updated. Ive followed (apt-get
upgrade) and everything crashed:

Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen... Fertig
0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.
3 nicht vollständig installiert oder entfernt.
Nach dieser Operation werden 0 B Plattenplatz zusätzlich benutzt.
exim4-base (4.72-6+squeeze1) wird eingerichtet ...
insserv: warning: script 'K91apache' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: There is a loop at service rc.local if started
insserv: There is a loop between service rc.local and checkroot if started
insserv:  loop involving service checkroot at depth 3
insserv:  loop involving service keyboard-setup at depth 2
insserv:  loop involving service hwclock at depth 5
insserv:  loop involving service hwclockfirst at depth 3
insserv:  loop involving service hostname at depth 4
insserv: There is a loop between service rc.local and mountnfs if started
insserv:  loop involving service mountnfs at depth 9
insserv:  loop involving service networking at depth 8
insserv: There is a loop between service apache and ifupdown-clean if
started
insserv:  loop involving service ifupdown-clean at depth 6
insserv:  loop involving service kbd at depth 12
insserv: There is a loop between service rc.local and mountall-bootclean
if started
insserv:  loop involving service mountall-bootclean at depth 8
insserv:  loop involving service mountall at depth 7
insserv:  loop involving service checkfs at depth 6
insserv:  loop involving service mountoverflowtmp at depth 10
insserv: There is a loop between service apache and mtab if started
insserv:  loop involving service mtab at depth 6
insserv: There is a loop at service apache if started
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
[... many identical lines removed ...]
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Max recursions depth 99 reached
insserv:  loop involving service atd at depth 1
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: There is a loop between service rc.local and mountoverflowtmp
if started
insserv: There is a loop between service rc.local and udev if started
insserv:  loop involving service udev at depth 2
insserv:  loop involving service mountkernfs at depth 1
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting apachectl depends on rc.local and therefore on system
facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: exiting now without changing boot order!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von exim4-base (--configure):
 Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert
1 zurück
dpkg: Abhängigkeitsprobleme verhindern Konfiguration von exim4-daemon-light:
 exim4-daemon-light hängt ab von exim4-base (>= 4.72); aber:
  Paket exim4-base ist noch nicht konfiguriert.
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
 Abhängigkeitsprobleme - verbleibt unkonfiguriert
dpkg: Abhängigkeitsprobleme verhindern Konfiguration von bsd-mailx:
 bsd-mailx hängt ab von default-mta | mail-transport-agent; aber:
  Paket default-mta ist nicht installiert.
  Paket exim4-daemon-light, das default-mta bereitstellt, ist noch nicht
konfiguriert.
  Paket mail-transport-agent ist nicht installiert.
  Paket exim4-daemon-light, das mail-transport-agent bereitstellt, ist
noch nicht konfiguriert.
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von bsd-mailx (--configure):
 Abhängigkeitsprobleme - verbleibt unkonfiguriert
configured to not write apport reports
                                      configured to not write apport reports

    configured to not write apport reports

                                          Fehler traten auf beim
Bearbeiten von:
 exim4-base
 exim4-daemon-light
 bsd-mailx

The instructions

apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean
apt-get --purge remove exim4-base
apt-get install exim4-base

did not succeed.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.72 #1 built 05-May-2011 17:50:08
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2007
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (April  9, 2010)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM
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
GnuTLS compile-time version: 2.8.6
GnuTLS runtime version: 2.8.6
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages exim4-base depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112+nmu2       add and remove users and groups
ii  cron                    3.0pl1-116       process scheduling daemon
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.36.1         Debian configuration
management sy
ii  exim4-config [exim4-con 4.72-6+squeeze1  configuration for the Exim
MTA (v4
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii  libdb4.8                4.8.30-2         Berkeley v4.8 Database
Libraries [
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2
init scrip
ii  netbase                 4.45             Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages exim4-base recommends:
pn  mailx                         <none>     (no description available)
ii  perl-modules                  5.10.1-17  Core Perl modules
ii  psmisc                        22.11-1    utilities that use the proc
file s

Versions of packages exim4-base suggests:
pn  exim4-doc-html | exim4 <none>            (no description available)
pn  eximon4                <none>            (no description available)
ii  file                   5.04-5            Determines file type using
"magic"
ii  mutt [mail-reader]     1.5.20-9+squeeze1 text-based mailreader
supporting M
ii  openssl                0.9.8o-4squeeze1  Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
binary a
pn  spf-tools-perl         <none>            (no description available)
pn  swaks                  <none>            (no description available)

-- debconf information excluded