Re: problem occurs after upgrading to lenny

["Pete Kay" <petedao@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I am having problem apt-get install even after attempting to install exim4-base.  
Here is the error:

ser:/home/anne# apt-get install exim4-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
exim4-base is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpci2 libgail17 libgcj7-0 type-handling libsoup2.2-8 libwnck18
  libpoppler0c2 libdirectfb-0.9-25 libeel2-2.14 libiw28 libgucharmap4
  libmyspell3c2 libsnmp9 mkisofs libavahi-core4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ...
Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of at:
 at depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing at (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4:
 exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy | exim4-daemon-custom; however:
  Package exim4-daemon-light is not configured yet.
  Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed.
dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsd-mailx:
 bsd-mailx depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package exim4 is not configured yet.
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bsd-mailx (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailx:
 mailx depends on bsd-mailx; however:
  Package bsd-mailx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mailx (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 exim4-daemon-light
 at
 exim4
 bsd-mailx
 mailx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ser:/home/anne# 

Is the new Lenny ready?  If so, how do I update my os?

Thanks,
Pete

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:55:49 +0800, Pete Kay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to upgrade to Lenny because Lenny has the latest Lua 5.3 version,
> but after I did the upgrade, not only Lua 5.3 is not installed, but apt-get
> starting to pop up errors every time I use it:

[...]

> Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ...
> Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
> invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[...]

This is a known problem with Lenny right now:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476987
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg00473.html

It is fixed in Sid, but the corrected package cannot propagate to Lenny
at the moment. (This is related to perl, on which exim4-daemon-heavy
depends.)

http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/exim4.html
http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=exim4

I think that installing the Sid version of exim4-base is the quickest
and easiest fix for Lenny users in the present situation.

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         Florian   |


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