[Pkg-exim4-users] Upgrade re-accept question

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

Yeah, that's the first thing I tried, of course...
I get:

/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: exim4-config is broken or not fully installed

so I added --force:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure --force exim4-config
DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This is most probably
caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or later without accepting the
suggested conffile changes. Please read
/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz for 4.67-2 and 4.67-4
2009-04-07 11:59:04 Exim configuration error in line 32 of 
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
  malformed macro definition
Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp, not 
installing
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to 
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

(there was a section in there where I answered the dpkg configuration 
questions for exim, right after I did the dpkg-reconfigure, but it still 
errored out as above)

Any more ideas? :)

    -Josiah


Neil S. Briscoe wrote:
> Hi
>
> Try running dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config and see what happens
>
> I should say I ran into this on my first upgrade to Lenny from Etch - 
> and I made the wrong choice too.  Fortunately, I use the unsplit 
> option and the exim4.conf.template file in both versions runs in the 
> same order, so I ended up going to the base Debian Lenny version and 
> then re-introducing my routers/transports from the old version.  This 
> worked, but was possibly more work than was necessary.
>
> Regards
> Neil
>
> Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>> I think this is more like a dpkg usage question, but I can't find the
>> answer on google or in the manpage or in the documentation it's pointing
>> me to. It's pretty much, I think, the simplest question one could have
>> about this situation...
>> So I upgraded exim4 and I got the errors that everybody knows so well:
>>
>> Setting up exim4-config (4.69-2) ...
>> DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This is most 
>> probably
>> caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or later without accepting the
>> suggested conffile changes. Please read
>> /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz for 4.67-2 and 4.67-4
>> 2009-04-07 11:11:09 Exim configuration error in line 32 of
>> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
>>  malformed macro definition
>> Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp, not
>> installing
>> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to
>> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
>> dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--configure):
>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>
>> ....but how do I re-run the script so that I can accept said proposed
>> changes? It's true I didn't accept them the first time.... I usually
>> don't accept changes to files that I changed myself, because it tends to
>> break my config, but clearly in this case I made the wrong choice.
>> Thanks,
>>    -Josiah
>>
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