Sendmail Install Dramas
Hi All,
Hope this is the right place - new to debian (and loving it) so please
bare with me.
I've just tried to update the sendmail package on my system (I saw the
security notice) but had a few problems. After a bit of fiddling
(basically involving apt-get remove --purge sendmail) I tried again and
got the following error messages:
Setting up sendmail-base (8.13.1-14) ...
adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists.
adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists.
dpkg: error processing sendmail-base (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sendmail-bin:
sendmail-bin depends on sendmail-base; however:
Package sendmail-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing sendmail-bin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sensible-mda:
sensible-mda depends on sendmail-bin | mail-transport-agent; however:
Package sendmail-bin is not configured yet.
Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
Package sendmail-bin which provides mail-transport-agent is not
configured yet.
Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed.
dpkg: error processing sensible-mda (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rmail:
rmail depends on sendmail-bin | mail-transport-agent; however:
Package sendmail-bin is not configured yet.
Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
Package sendmail-bin which provides mail-transport-agent is not
configured yet.
Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed.
dpkg: error processing rmail (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sendmail:
sendmail depends on sendmail-base; however:
Package sendmail-base is not configured yet.
sendmail depends on sendmail-bin; however:
Package sendmail-bin is not configured yet.
sendmail depends on sensible-mda; however:
Package sensible-mda is not configured yet.
sendmail depends on rmail; however:
Package rmail is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing sendmail (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
sendmail-base
sendmail-bin
sensible-mda
rmail
sendmail
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
The drama seems to be obvious in the first few lines, but I can't work
out what the home dir referred to is? My system had mysteriously (to
me) gained a home/defang directory. I tried deleting this but that
didn't do the trick (I got the above error messages, but without the 2nd
and 3rd lines).
Any ideas greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
David
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