Bug#1021503: exim4-config installations fails with: absolute value of integer "2G" is too large (overflow)

[Frederic Peters]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.96-5
Severity: normal

Hi,

Updating to 4.96-5, the exim4-config update fails with:

2022-10-09 19:09:01 Exim configuration error in line 878 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
  absolute value of integer "2G" is too large (overflow)
Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp, not installing
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
dpkg: error handling exim4-config (--configure):
 installed exim4-config package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

This is related to:

  * Change remote_smtp transports to set message_linelength_limit = 2G if
    IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT was set to avoid accepting messages (due to
    IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT disabling the limit in the ACLs) without
    being able to pass them on. Closes: #1019959

I locally changed the configuration files to have
  message_linelength_limit = 1G, instead of 2G
and upgrade succeeded.


      Fred


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.96 #2 built 09-Oct-2022 12:26:52
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2018
(c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 - 2022
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September  9, 2013)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS TLS_resume move_frozen_messages DANE DKIM DNSSEC Event I18N OCSP PIPECONNECT PRDR Queue_Ramp SOCKS SRS TCP_Fast_Open
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmjz dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 external 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 search path is /etc/exim4/exim4.conf:/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                3.129
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.79

Versions of packages exim4-config recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20211016

exim4-config suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/email-addresses changed [not included]
/etc/exim4/conf.d/router/200_exim4-config_primary changed [not included]
/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp changed [not included]
/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost changed [not included]
/etc/exim4/passwd.client [Errno 13] Permission non accordée: '/etc/exim4/passwd.client'

-- debconf information excluded