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

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 06:33:53PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 23:33 +0100, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> > $ sudo journalctl --unit=exim4.service
> > -- Logs begin at vr 2016-01-15 19:02:54 CET, end at vr 2016-01-15 
> > 23:12:00 CET. --
> > jan 15 19:02:56 sonata systemd[1]: Starting LSB: exim Mail Transport 
> > Agent...
> > jan 15 19:02:56 sonata exim4[537]: Starting MTA: exim4.
> > jan 15 19:02:56 sonata exim4[537]: ALERT: exim paniclog 
> > /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system
> > jan 15 19:02:56 sonata systemd[1]: Started LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent.
> 
> The two "exim4" lines are coming from the exim4 package. I'm not sure
> where the lines referring to "LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent" are coming
> from, but afaict it's not the Debian exim package.

Those are the lines when systemd starts the LSB init script via the
lsb unit generateor.

> Checking a couple of jessie systems that are to hand gives what I'd
> expect:
> 
> adam at mowgli:~$ sudo journalctl --unit=exim4.service
> -- Logs begin at Sun 2015-12-20 22:31:54 GMT, end at Sat 2016-01-16 18:32:20 GMT. --
> Dec 20 22:32:23 mowgli exim4[1015]: Starting MTA: exim4.

Are you running systemd as pid 1?

Greetings
Marc

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