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

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Sat, 2016-01-16 at 20:25 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.

Interestingly I can't find any such lines in the journal on either
machine.

> > 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?

Yep:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 21 19:00 /sbin/init -> /lib/systemd/systemd

Both machines are jessie, in case that makes a difference (I can see
that the original report is from a sid or stretch system).

Regards,

Adam