Bug#810938: exim4-daemon-light: Cannot assign requested address: daemon abandoned at each startup

Wed Jan 13 22:42:37 UTC 2016

Package: exim4-daemon-light
Version: 4.86-7+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

Package upgrades in testing:

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Aptitude 0.7.5: log report
ma, jan 11 2016 19:12:03 +0100

  IMPORTANT: this log only lists intended actions; actions which fail
  due to dpkg problems may not be completed.

Will install 27 packages, and remove 0 packages.
2061 kB of disk space will be used
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[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libxine2-plugins:amd64 1.2.6-1
[HOLD] ifupdown:amd64 0.7.54
[UPGRADE] gir1.2-soup-2.4:amd64 2.52.1-1 -> 2.52.2-1
[UPGRADE] kbd:amd64 2.0.3-1 -> 2.0.3-2
[UPGRADE] klibc-utils:amd64 2.0.4-4 -> 2.0.4-6
[UPGRADE] libgraphite2-3:amd64 1.3.3-1 -> 1.3.4-2
[UPGRADE] libklibc:amd64 2.0.4-4 -> 2.0.4-6
[UPGRADE] libopusfile0:amd64 0.6-1+b1 -> 0.7-1
[UPGRADE] liborcus-0.10-0v5:amd64 0.9.2-3 -> 0.9.2-4
[UPGRADE] libpcre16-3:amd64 2:8.35-8 -> 2:8.38-1
[UPGRADE] libpcre3:amd64 2:8.35-8 -> 2:8.38-1
[UPGRADE] libpcre3:i386 2:8.35-8 -> 2:8.38-1
[UPGRADE] libpcre3-dev:amd64 2:8.35-8 -> 2:8.38-1
[UPGRADE] libpcre32-3:amd64 2:8.35-8 -> 2:8.38-1
[UPGRADE] libpcrecpp0v5:amd64 2:8.35-8 -> 2:8.38-1
[UPGRADE] libpython3.4:amd64 3.4.4-1 -> 3.4.4-2
[UPGRADE] libpython3.4-minimal:amd64 3.4.4-1 -> 3.4.4-2
[UPGRADE] libpython3.4-stdlib:amd64 3.4.4-1 -> 3.4.4-2
[UPGRADE] libsoup-gnome2.4-1:amd64 2.52.1-1 -> 2.52.2-1
[UPGRADE] libsoup2.4-1:amd64 2.52.1-1 -> 2.52.2-1
[UPGRADE] manpages:amd64 3.74-1 -> 4.04-0.1
[UPGRADE] manpages-dev:amd64 3.74-1 -> 4.04-0.1
[UPGRADE] nano:amd64 2.4.2-1+b1 -> 2.4.3-1
[UPGRADE] openssh-client:amd64 1:7.1p1-5 -> 1:7.1p1-6
[UPGRADE] openssh-server:amd64 1:7.1p1-5 -> 1:7.1p1-6
[UPGRADE] openssh-sftp-server:amd64 1:7.1p1-5 -> 1:7.1p1-6
[UPGRADE] publicsuffix:amd64 20151205-1 -> 20160104-1
[UPGRADE] python3.4:amd64 3.4.4-1 -> 3.4.4-2
[UPGRADE] python3.4-minimal:amd64 3.4.4-1 -> 3.4.4-2
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Log complete.

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Aptitude 0.7.5: log report
ma, jan 11 2016 19:13:19 +0100

  IMPORTANT: this log only lists intended actions; actions which fail
  due to dpkg problems may not be completed.

Will install 0 packages, and remove 1 packages.
173 kB of disk space will be freed
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[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libxine2-plugins:amd64 1.2.6-1
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] ifupdown:amd64 0.7.54

Log complete.

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Aptitude 0.7.5: log report
ma, jan 11 2016 20:13:54 +0100

  IMPORTANT: this log only lists intended actions; actions which fail
  due to dpkg problems may not be completed.

Will install 3 packages, and remove 0 packages.
849 kB of disk space will be used
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[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libxine2-plugins:amd64 1.2.6-1
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] python-argcomplete:amd64 0.8.1-1
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] python-ipaddr:amd64 2.1.11-2
[INSTALL] ifupdown2:amd64 1.0~git20151029-1
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Log complete.

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Ever since I did that upgrade, I get a mail from root when I boot my system
that contains:

exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on sonata has non-zero size, mail system might be broken. The last 10 lines are quoted below.

2016-01-12 18:52:17 socket bind() to port 25 for address ::1 failed: Cannot assign requested address: daemon abandoned
2016-01-13 08:17:34 socket bind() to port 25 for address ::1 failed: Cannot assign requested address: daemon abandoned

(I booted the system twice since that upgrade, so the above 2 entries are from
these 2 boots.)

OTOH, the fact that I get the mail seems to indicate that exim is working
fine... So why do I get these mails?

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.86 #3 built 28-Nov-2015 17:45:31
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2015
(c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 - 2015
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September  9, 2013)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM DNSSEC PRDR OCSP
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
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='satellite'
dc_other_hostnames='sonata'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1 ; ::1'
dc_readhost='msxnet.org'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='smtp.upcmail.nl'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:sonata

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 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-daemon-light depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.58
ii  exim4-base             4.86-7+b1
ii  libc6                  2.21-6
ii  libdb5.3               5.3.28-11
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28      3.3.19-1
ii  libpcre3               2:8.38-1

exim4-daemon-light recommends no packages.

exim4-daemon-light suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  exim4-daemon-light/drec: