On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:24:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > NOTE: Already posted on unbuntu list... but due to it being something > of an urgent matter... and not seeing responses there... I'm posting > here too since the tools are all debian tools. > ----- -------- ----- --=-- ----- ------- ----- > > Due to unbridled personal bungling, I've created a nasty mess while > installing sendmail. > > I inadvertantly deleted /etc/init.d/sendmail. Well I thought I'd just > reinstall sendmail to re-acquire that file. > > So uninstalled sendmail... with aptitude but it uninstalled a few > other parts of the tools too. > > There appear to be several packages involved. > p sendmail > i sendmail-base > C sendmail-bin > i sendmail-cf > > As you see, after several attempts at uninstall/reinstall, I now have > some installed and some not. The rub comes with sendmail-bin which is > the package that contains /etc/init.d/sendmail > > Any attempt to uninstall it tells me it is not installed, any attempt > to install it ends with an error that appears to happen due to that > missing file, or the fact that sendmail-bin cannot be --configured. > > I've tried any number of ways to sneak up on it, but aptitude won't > let me. Or more accurately, I don't know how to use aptitude well > enough to resolve the problem. > > I tried apt-get with the --force-yes flag, in the hopes of forcing the > install but it didn't work... showed the same dpkg error. > > ,---- > | [...] > | /etc/mail/aliases: 4 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 66 bytes total > | invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/sendmail not found. > | dpkg: error processing sendmail-bin (--configure): > | > | subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit > | status 100 > | > | Errors were encountered while processing: > | sendmail-bin > | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > `---- > > So, can anyone recommend some method to get past this, and get the > pkgs fully installed and configured? >
I imagine that, while configuring sendmail, dpkg tries to stop the sendmail process by invoking the init script. The init script isn't there, so it thinks it can't proceed. Try making a quick file that just returns true and then re-install the package (apt-get install --reinstall sendmail-bin). -- Darac Marjal
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