Re: postfix problems after update..
laurent@blackvoid.org (Laurent Geyer) wrote:
>I hope there hasn't been a similar post to this list already but I
>couldn't find anything in the archives so I figured I'd see if somebody
>could help me out. I ran an apt-get update and upgrade last night and
>have since have had problems getting past the postfix preinstallation
>routine. The upgrade fails with following error message(s):
>
>Preconfiguring packages ...
>(Reading database ... 22394 files and directories currently installed.)
>Preparing to replace postfix 0.0.19991231pl05-2 (using
>.../postfix_0.0.20010502.SNAPSHOT-2_i386.deb) ...
>Stopping mail transport agent: Postfix.
>dpkg: error processing
>/var/cache/apt/archives/postfix_0.0.20010502.SNAPSHOT-2_i386.deb
>(--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
This sort of thing is often a matter for a bug report against the
package concerned; you can look at postfix's open bugs at
http://bugs.debian.org/postfix. In this case, three were filed (#97763,
#98008, and #98116), and they're all now closed.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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