[Pkg-exim4-users] Re: exim periodically segfaults on any attempt to deliver message to local mailbox

[Miernik]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
>> Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December  3, 2003)
> [...]
>> locked /var/spool/exim4/db/retry.lockfile
>> EXIM_DBOPEN(/var/spool/exim4/db/retry)
>> Segmentation fault
> [...]
>> What should I try to reinstall, or what to try to debug? I don't want to
>> reinstall the whole system just because exim4 broke.
> 
> Looks like the hints database somehow got f*cked up and berkeleyDB
> cannot handle it. Try removing the files in /var/spool/exim4/db/ (They
> just contain retry hints, no e-mails or other persistant data.
> cu andreas

That didn't help, but doing:

dpkg --force-depends --purge libdb4.2
wget http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/db4.2/libdb4.2_4.2.52-23.1_i386.deb
dpkg -i libdb4.2_4.2.52-23.1_i386.deb

did help. Thanks for the clue!

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