Package: exim4 Version: 4.89~RC3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
apt upgrade fails to upgrade exim4 and exim4-daemon-light. Tried purging the package and reinstalling: $ sudo apt install exim4 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: liblockfile1 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. The following additional packages will be installed: exim4-daemon-light The following NEW packages will be installed: exim4 exim4-daemon-light 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/548 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,223 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package exim4-daemon-light. (Reading database ... 422959 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../exim4-daemon-light_4.89~RC3-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking exim4-daemon-light (4.89~RC3-1) ... Selecting previously unselected package exim4. Preparing to unpack .../exim4_4.89~RC3-1_all.deb ... Unpacking exim4 (4.89~RC3-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.89~RC3-1) ... Job for exim4.service failed because of unavailable resources or another system error. See "systemctl status exim4.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed. ● exim4.service - LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/exim4; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: resources) since Sat 2017-02-11 14:01:41 BRST; 12ms ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 21370 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/exim4 start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) fev 11 13:57:10 fx8350 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent... fev 11 13:57:11 fx8350 exim4[21370]: Starting MTA: exim4. fev 11 13:57:11 fx8350 exim4[21370]: ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size…broken fev 11 13:57:11 fx8350 systemd[1]: exim4.service: PID file /var/run/exim4/exim.pid not readable (y…rectory fev 11 14:01:41 fx8350 systemd[1]: exim4.service: Daemon never wrote its PID file. Failing. fev 11 14:01:41 fx8350 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent. fev 11 14:01:41 fx8350 systemd[1]: exim4.service: Unit entered failed state. fev 11 14:01:41 fx8350 systemd[1]: exim4.service: Failed with result 'resources'. Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full. dpkg: error processing package exim4-daemon-light (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4: exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy | exim4-daemon-custom; however: Package exim4-daemon-light is not configured yet. Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed. dpkg: error processing package exim4 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: exim4-daemon-light exim4 needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) and journal log: $ sudo journalctl -xe fev 11 14:14:31 fx8350 systemd[1]: exim4.service: Daemon never wrote its PID file. Failing. fev 11 14:14:31 fx8350 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent. -- Subject: Unit exim4.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- Unit exim4.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. fev 11 14:14:31 fx8350 systemd[1]: exim4.service: Unit entered failed state. fev 11 14:14:31 fx8350 systemd[1]: exim4.service: Failed with result 'resources'. If this is not a exim4 bug, but a dpkg one, let me know and I will open another bug report. -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.89 #2 built 10-Feb-2017 18:08:52 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 # /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf # # Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf # yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' # # Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes # to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local # changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess # around with multiple versions of the file. # # update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to generate # exim configuration macros for the configuration file. # # Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the # Debconf configuration, but not all of them. # # This is a Debian specific file dc_eximconfig_configtype='local' dc_other_hostnames='fx8350' dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1 ; ::1' dc_readhost='' dc_relay_domains='' dc_minimaldns='false' dc_relay_nets='' dc_smarthost='' CFILEMODE='644' dc_use_split_config='false' dc_hide_mailname='' dc_mailname_in_oh='true' dc_localdelivery='mail_spool' mailname:fx8350 -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages exim4 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.60 ii exim4-base 4.89~RC3-1 ih exim4-daemon-light 4.89~RC3-1 exim4 recommends no packages. exim4 suggests no packages. -- debconf information: exim4/drec: