[Pkg-exim4-users] exim won't start

[Rick Pasotto]

While upgrading my system this morning it froze and I had to reboot for
the first time in a long time. (I keep current with testing on a daily
basis). Everything seemed normal until I noticed that I was not
receiving any mail. 'ps ax | grep exim' revealed that exim was not
running. When I ran '/etc/init.d/exim4 start' manually I got the error
message:

Restarting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments

What is going on? I certainly haven't edited /etc/init.d/exim4. Running
'exim4 -bd' at least gets it running but I shouldn't have to do that and
I know I've left out one or more arguments. 'apt-cache policy' gives:

$ apt-cache policy exim4-base exim4-daemon-heavy eximon4
exim4-base:
  Installed: 4.69-2+b1
  Candidate: 4.69-2+b1
  Version table:
     4.69-5+b1 0
        200 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 *** 4.69-2+b1 0
        990 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
exim4-daemon-heavy:
  Installed: 4.69-2+b1
  Candidate: 4.69-2+b1
  Version table:
     4.69-5+b1 0
        200 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 *** 4.69-2+b1 0
        990 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
eximon4:
  Installed: 4.69-2+b1
  Candidate: 4.69-2+b1
  Version table:
     4.69-5+b1 0
        200 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 *** 4.69-2+b1 0
        990 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Should I upgrade to the unstable version? How can I determine what the
command line arguments that init.d is using are so I can figure out
what's incompatible?

-- 
"I heartily accept the motto, «That government is best which governs
 least»; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and
 systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also
 believe -- «that government is best which governs not at all»; and
 when men are prepared for it, that is the kind of government which
 they will have." -- Henry David Thoreau
     Rick Pasotto    rick at niof.net    http://www.niof.net