Bug#921326: exim4-daemon-light: old exim4 daemon did not stop; socket bind() to port 25 for address 127.0.0.1 failed: Address already in use: daemon abandoned

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2019-02-04 10:22:29 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The following daemon is running:
> 
> Debian-+  1194     1  0 Jan25 ?        00:00:01 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q5m
[...]
> journalctl excerpt (concerning exim):
> 
> [...]
> Feb 01 11:10:50 cventin systemd[1]: Reloading.
> Feb 01 11:10:50 cventin systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent...
> Feb 01 11:10:50 cventin exim4[31423]: Stopping MTA:/sbin/start-stop-daemon: matching only on non-root pidfile /run/exim4/exim.pid is insecure
> Feb 01 11:10:50 cventin exim4[31423]:  exim4_listener.
> Feb 01 11:10:50 cventin systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent.
> [...]
> Feb 01 11:11:07 cventin systemd[1]: Reloading.
> Feb 01 11:11:09 cventin systemd[1]: Reloading.
> Feb 01 11:11:10 cventin systemd[1]: exim4.service: Found left-over process 1194 (exim4) in control group while starting unit. Ignoring.
> Feb 01 11:11:10 cventin systemd[1]: This usually indicates unclean termination of a previous run, or service implementation deficiencies.
> Feb 01 11:11:10 cventin systemd[1]: Starting LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent...
> Feb 01 11:11:10 cventin exim4[32215]: Starting MTA: exim4.
> Feb 01 11:11:10 cventin systemd[1]: Started LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent.
> [...]

cventin:~> systemctl status exim4.service
● exim4.service - LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/exim4; generated)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2019-02-01 11:11:10 CET; 2 days ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 12.7M
   CGroup: /system.slice/exim4.service
           └─1194 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q5m

Feb 01 11:11:10 cventin systemd[1]: Starting LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent...
Feb 01 11:11:10 cventin exim4[32215]: Starting MTA: exim4.
Feb 01 11:11:10 cventin systemd[1]: Started LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent.

This is strange, because it says "active (running) since Fri
2019-02-01 11:11:10 CET; 2 days ago", but the daemon was started
on 2019-01-25.

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