Re: dovecot-imapd Update Fails

[Russell Steicke <russells@adelie.cx>]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:23:45PM -0600, Lan User wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I updated my Debian Sid system  on Sunday and I'm still stuck with the error
> below.  
>  
> Dovecot-imapd is no longer working :(
>  
> I've tried "apt-get -f install" to no avail...
>  
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up dovecot-imapd (0.99.13-6) ...
> Starting mail server: dovecotFatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's your problem, you have a different imap server running.  Remove
that and your dovecot upgrade will be able to continue.


> invoke-rc.d: initscript dovecot, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing dovecot-imapd (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 89
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  dovecot-imapd
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> If anyone could offer me some assistance I'd be most appreciative.
>  
> Thanks much,
>  
> Patrick.


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