[Pkg-exim4-users] exim won't start

[Rick Pasotto]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 05:13:38PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> While upgrading my system this morning it froze and I had to reboot for
> the first time in a long time. (I keep current with testing on a daily
> basis). Everything seemed normal until I noticed that I was not
> receiving any mail. 'ps ax | grep exim' revealed that exim was not
> running. When I ran '/etc/init.d/exim4 start' manually I got the error
> message:
> 
> Restarting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
> 
> What is going on? I certainly haven't edited /etc/init.d/exim4. Running
> 'exim4 -bd' at least gets it running but I shouldn't have to do that and
> I know I've left out one or more arguments. 'apt-cache policy' gives:
> 
> $ apt-cache policy exim4-base exim4-daemon-heavy eximon4
> exim4-base:
>   Installed: 4.69-2+b1
>   Candidate: 4.69-2+b1
>   Version table:
>      4.69-5+b1 0
>         200 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>  *** 4.69-2+b1 0
>         990 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> exim4-daemon-heavy:
>   Installed: 4.69-2+b1
>   Candidate: 4.69-2+b1
>   Version table:
>      4.69-5+b1 0
>         200 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>  *** 4.69-2+b1 0
>         990 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> eximon4:
>   Installed: 4.69-2+b1
>   Candidate: 4.69-2+b1
>   Version table:
>      4.69-5+b1 0
>         200 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>  *** 4.69-2+b1 0
>         990 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> Should I upgrade to the unstable version? How can I determine what the
> command line arguments that init.d is using are so I can figure out
> what's incompatible?

Just saw Sebastian Tennant's reply in the 'exim4 issues' thread.

That did fix it but I really can't see how. All those variables are
empty!

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