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

felipe zeden at riseup.net
Sun Feb 12 16:05:50 UTC 2017


Hi Andreas!

Indeed this host does have ipv6 disabled. After reconfiguring exim4 it finishes the installation and it has been working
normally since then.

You can close this, as it seems it was a configuration problem on my end rather than a bug with exim4.

Thank you for helping out!

On 12-02-2017 13:15, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2017-02-12 felipe <zeden at riseup.net> wrote:
>>> On 11-02-2017 23:25, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>>> fev 11 13:57:11 fx8350 exim4[21370]: ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size…broken
> 
>>> There may be interesting information in this file.
> 
> 
>> This is the output:
> 
>> $ sudo cat /var/log/exim4/paniclog
>> 2017-02-10 11:20:36 socket bind() to port 25 for address ::1 failed: Cannot assign requested address: daemon abandoned
> [...]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Have you disabled IPv6 support on this host? If that that the case you'll
> need to change the listening interfaces, excluding IPv6 addresses.
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
> 
> cu Andreas
> 



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