Re: broken exim4-config

["J. Nopr" <junopr@sbcglobal.net>]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:36:24 -0600
CW Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:08:41AM -0700, J. Nopr wrote:
> > Hi all.  I am trying to set up exim4 to send mail out through my dsl
> > provider's smarthost. 
> > 
> [...]
> [text wrapped - *please* wrap your lines.]
> 
> > Now When I insatll exim4*, I immediatly get an error, starting at
> > exim4-config.
> > 
> > junopr@DebianVoyager% sudo dpkg --configure exim4-config          
> >  [/etc/exim4]
> > Setting up exim4-config (4.32-2) ...
> > Error: Unsplit config selected and /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
> >  missing ... exiting
> > dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  exim4-config
> > 
> > Can somebody send me the exim4.conf.template file?  Also, any good
> > links
> 
> You already have it. It is part of the exim4-config package.  It
> sounds like your installation is confused.  Perhaps you need to
> re-install exim4-config.  Maybe try:
> 	apt-get --reinstall install exim4-config
> 

That's giving me the same error.

junopr@DebianVoyager% sudo apt-get --reinstall install exim4-config 
[/etc/exim4] Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 25 not
upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up exim4-config (4.32-2) ...
Error: Unsplit config selected and /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
missing ... exiting dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 exim4-config
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any other ideas?  I'm using sarge, if that matters.

Thanks,
J. Nopr