Bug#860317: upgrade to latest stretch version breaks

[Davide Prina]

Hi Andreas,

On 16/04/2017 11:42, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2017-04-16 Davide Prina <davide.prina at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Package: exim4
>> Version: 4.89-1
>
> [...]
>> Apr 16 11:06:06 davide systemd[1]: Starting LSB: exim Mail Transport
>> Agent...
>> Apr 16 11:06:07 davide exim4[3884]: Starting MTA:.
>> Apr 16 11:06:07 davide systemd[1]: exim4.service: PID file
>> /run/exim4/exim.pid not readable (yet?) after start: No such file or
>> directory
>> Apr 16 11:06:07 davide systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: exim Mail Transport
> [...]
>
>> $ systemctl status exim4.service
> [...]
>> apr 16 09:42:10 davide systemd[1]: ^[[0;1;39mexim4.service: Failed with
>> result 'resources'.
>
>
>> $ journalctl -xe
> [...]
>> --
>> -- The result is failed.
>> Apr 16 09:41:32 davide systemd[1]: ^[[0;1;39mexim4.service: Unit entered
>> failed state.
>> Apr 16 09:41:32 davide systemd[1]: ^[[0;1;39mexim4.service: Failed with
>> result 'resources'.
> [...]

> this whole bunch of debug info from different commands does not seem to
> belong together. The time stamps do not match. (11:06:07 vs 09:42:10 vs
> 09:41:32)

I take them from different try, but the errors are always the same.
I try to find a workaround, but I failed.

>> $ cat /var/log/exim4/mainlog
> [...]
>> 2017-04-16 09:39:33 1czemS-0006A8-F3 Completed
>
> Anything in paniclog?

# LANG=C ls -l /var/log/exim4/paniclog
ls: cannot access '/var/log/exim4/paniclog': No such file or directory

> Does "exim4 -bV" report any errors?

# exim4 -bV
Exim version 4.89 #2 built 09-Mar-2017 16:49:47
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2017
(c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 
- 2017
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September  9, 2013)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM 
DNSSEC Event OCSP PRDR SOCKS TCP_Fast_Open
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm 
dbmjz 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
Configure owner: 0:0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

> Are you able to manually start a daemon instance?

# systemctl start exim4
Job for exim4.service failed because of unavailable resources or another 
system error.
See "systemctl status exim4.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

> update-exim4.conf && exim4 -bd -d

# update-exim4.conf && exim4 -bd -d
Exim version 4.89 uid=0 gid=0 pid=22421 D=fbb95cfd
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September  9, 2013)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM 
DNSSEC Event OCSP PRDR SOCKS TCP_Fast_Open
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm 
dbmjz 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
Configure owner: 0:0
Size of off_t: 8
Compiler: GCC [6.3.0 20170221]
Library version: Glibc: Compile: 2.24
                         Runtime: 2.24
Library version: GnuTLS: Compile: 3.5.8
                          Runtime: 3.5.8
Library version: PCRE: Compile: 8.39
                        Runtime: 8.39 2016-06-14
Total 13 lookups
WHITELIST_D_MACROS: "OUTGOING"
TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST: "/etc/exim4/trusted_configs"
changed uid/gid: forcing real = effective
   uid=0 gid=0 pid=22421
   auxiliary group list: <none>
seeking password data for user "uucp": cache not available
getpwnam() succeeded uid=10 gid=10
configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
log selectors = 0000cffc 0e320202
cwd=/home/davide 3 args: exim4 -bd -d
trusted user
admin user
seeking password data for user "mail": cache not available
getpwnam() succeeded uid=8 gid=8
DSN: hubbed_hosts propagating DSN
DSN: nonlocal propagating DSN
DSN: real_local propagating DSN
DSN: system_aliases propagating DSN
DSN: userforward propagating DSN
DSN: procmail propagating DSN
DSN: maildrop propagating DSN
DSN: lowuid_aliases propagating DSN
DSN: local_user propagating DSN
DSN: mail4root propagating DSN
user name "root" extracted from gecos field "root"
originator: uid=0 gid=0 login=root name=root
22421 listening on 127.0.0.1 port 25
22421 listening on ::1 port 25
22421 pid written to /run/exim4/exim.pid
22421 changed uid/gid: running as a daemon
22421   uid=102 gid=107 pid=22421
22421   auxiliary group list: 107
22421 LOG: MAIN
22421   exim 4.89 daemon started: pid=22421, no queue runs, listening 
for SMTP on [127.0.0.1]:25 [::1]:25
22421 set_process_info: 22421 daemon(4.89): no queue runs, listening for 
SMTP on [127.0.0.1]:25 [::1]:25
22421 daemon running with uid=102 gid=107 euid=102 egid=107
22421 Listening...


I have tried to send a mail and it work

Ciao
Davide