Bug#854896: exim4: Dpkg fails to upgrade exim4 on debian sid.

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2017-02-11 felipe <zeden at riseup.net> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.89~RC3-1
> Severity: normal

> Dear Maintainer,

> apt upgrade fails to upgrade exim4 and exim4-daemon-light.

[...]

> fev 11 13:57:10 fx8350 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent...
> fev 11 13:57:11 fx8350 exim4[21370]: Starting MTA: exim4.
> fev 11 13:57:11 fx8350 exim4[21370]: ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size…broken
> fev 11 13:57:11 fx8350 systemd[1]: exim4.service: PID file /var/run/exim4/exim.pid not readable (y…rectory
> fev 11 14:01:41 fx8350 systemd[1]: exim4.service: Daemon never wrote its PID file. Failing.
> fev 11 14:01:41 fx8350 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent.
> fev 11 14:01:41 fx8350 systemd[1]: exim4.service: Unit entered failed state.
> fev 11 14:01:41 fx8350 systemd[1]: exim4.service: Failed with result 'resources'.

Hello,

what is in the exim logfiles? Could you please show your
/etc/default/exim4?

TIA, cu Andreas
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