Bug#860317: upgrade to latest stretch version breaks

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2017-04-14 "Brent S. Elmer" <webe3vt at aim.com> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.89-1
> Severity: normal

> I upgraded packages in stretch and there was a problem upgrading exim4.  When I
> try to do a reinstall of exim4 to try to fix it using synaptic, I get:

[...]
> Apr 14 08:30:06 brente systemd[1]: Starting LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent...
> Apr 14 08:30:06 brente exim4[27992]: Starting MTA: exim4.
> Apr 14 08:30:06 brente exim4[27992]: ALERT: exim paniclog
> /var/log/exim4/pa…oken
> Apr 14 08:30:06 brente systemd[1]: exim4.service: PID file
> /run/exim4/exim.…tory
> Apr 14 08:30:06 brente systemd[1]: exim4.service: Daemon never wrote its
> PI…ing.
> Apr 14 08:30:06 brente systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: exim Mail
> Transport…ent.

Anything in the exim logfiles?

cu Andreas

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