Bug#427682: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config hangs

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:08:16PM +0200, Tomas Tintera wrote:
> If I run
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
> 
> and leave all questions as they are filled implicitely, it shows a
> message that exim4 server is restarting, and hangs.
> 
> ps shows that the process exim4-config.config is <defunct>.

A shellscript should not be a zombie. This sounds like a system issue
on your side. Please export EX4DEBUG=yes and try again to see what
fails.

> This happens with exim4-config.config 4.44-2.

4.44-2 was never released with a Debian distribution, updates are not
supported. otoh, I do not see any reason why an update should not work.

Greetings
Marc

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