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From: Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:01:24 -0400
To: Debian Development <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: New libc6 breaks exim?


  Just a heads-up -- I upgraded to the new libc6 version, and exim started
refusing to accept SMTP connections from fetchmail. [1] I'm not sure what the
issue is exactly, but when running /usr/sbin/sendmail manually some non-fatal
errors are displayed about libdb2.so.  (if I manage to track it down more I'll
file a bug report--right now I don't even know whether it's a problem with
exim or with libc6)

  So if you use exim, you might want to at least dpkg-repack your old libc
before upgrading, or demonstrate that I don't know what I'm talking about ;-)..

  Daniel

  [1] Thank God for procmail, which lets me at least sort of get my email..

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From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:32:23 -0700
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: New libc6 breaks exim?

Sendmail appears to have a similar problem.  Mail sent by a user gets
sent out, but some of the messages to root appear to get stuck in a
queue:

e8QM2C130758     1912 Tue Sep 26 15:02 root
                 (Deferred: user database error)
                                       root

newaliases won't run, either.

I tried rebuilding sendmail but get a bunch of errors I haven't been
able to sort out yet.  I filed bug #72519 against sendmail, but don't
really have a handle on the problem.

Bob

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:01:24PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>   Just a heads-up -- I upgraded to the new libc6 version, and exim started
> refusing to accept SMTP connections from fetchmail. [1] I'm not sure what the
> issue is exactly, but when running /usr/sbin/sendmail manually some non-fatal
> errors are displayed about libdb2.so.  (if I manage to track it down more I'll
> file a bug report--right now I don't even know whether it's a problem with
> exim or with libc6)
>
>   So if you use exim, you might want to at least dpkg-repack your old libc
> before upgrading, or demonstrate that I don't know what I'm talking about ;-)..
>
>   Daniel
>
>   [1] Thank God for procmail, which lets me at least sort of get my email..
>
> --
> /----------------- Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu> -----------------> |                  Fate always wins...                                        |
> |                  at least, when people stick to the rules.                  |
> |                    -- Terry Pratchett, _Interesting Times_                  |
> \----------------- The Turtle Moves! -- http://www.lspace.org ----------------/
>
>
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