Re: Sendmail Install Dramas
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:56:51 +1000, David Powell
<moondrake@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:01:56 +1000, David Powell
> > <moondrake@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Is this a Woody system? Have you looked in the Debian BTS (bug
> > tracking system) if this is a known problem/bug?
>
> Hmmm, good question. I think it is a Woody. I can tell you for sure
> that the kernel is 2.6.7.
>
I'll look /etc/issue, or for sure in your /etc/apt/sources.list for
stable, testing, unstable. I suppose you are running Sarge (testing)
or Sid (unstable), because without backporting module-init-tools and
other support packages to Woody, you can't run 2.6.x kernels.
> > The first thing to try is to "dpkg --configure --pending" (man dpkg
> > for the details) and then you can try to fix your system with "apt-get
> > -f install" or manually installing sendmail.
>
> Tried that, it just returns an error:
> dpkg: error processing sendmail-base (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> > If this don't woks, you need to increase the dpkg verbosity level to
> > look where the problem is...
>
> Thanks, can you tell me how I'd do that (increase the verbosity). My
> guess is dpkg --debug=2000?
>
I think 200 or 400 should be enough, anyway have you looked in the Debian BTS?
Here (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=sendmail-base&archive=no)
are reported a couple of problems ugrading (one is solved =)...
Andrea
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