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upgrade? broke exim4



Howdy,
    I hadn't rebooted since dist-upgrade last January then something
caused a lockup, no video, no keyboard such that I did a hard power off.
    That was 2 days ago and since I've rebooted exim4 can't connect to
127.0.0.1:25 hence fetchmail can't transfer inbound mail.
    I've not found any solution on Google that works for me. Exim and
fetchmail has worked for me for years, since Potato I believe, Debian 2
something.
    When I run '/etc/init.d/exim4 restart' exim4 writes to
/var/log/exim4/paniclog,
    socket bind() to port 25 for address ::1 failed: Cannot assign
        requested address: waiting 30s before trying again (9 more tries)
        and finally: daemon abandoned
    When I try to fetch mail
    mike@/deb73:~> /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -i '';
        1 message for mdmcclain at pop3.nethere.net (4211 octets).
        fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1
        fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 4211
        fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
        fetchmail: POP3< +OK headers follow.
        reading message mdmcclain@mail.nethere.net:1 of 1 (4211 octets)
        Trying to connect to 127.0.0.1/25...connected.
        fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error
        Trying to connect to 127.0.0.1/25...connection failed.
        fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed:
            Connection refused.
        fetchmail: Connection errors for this poll:
        name 0: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed:
            Connection refused.
        fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
        fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
        fetchmail: POP3< This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
        fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
            mdmcclain@pop3.nethere.net
            and delivering to SMTP host localhost
        fetchmail: 6.3.21 querying pop3.nethere.net (protocol POP3) at
            Mon Jun  2 12:39:46 2014:
        poll completed
        fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
    this stopped exim4 again

    I don't see anything suspicious in /etc/ exim4 or fetchmail configs
so rebooted into older kernel and to see if problems went away, no joy.
    In one of the messages I read online someone's problems went away with an
upgrade, so I did an update, upgrade, still no joy.

    I'll readily admit most of what I've tried is flailing. I don't even know
what a port is that exim4 can't connect to, though I suspect it's software since
the hardware allows me to connect to the internet.
    I'm on dialup if that matters.

    One of the messages online suggested running,
'while true; do netstat -tlpn | grep :25 ; sleep 10 ; done'.
This shows nothing unless done right after restarting exim4 which dies after about
2.5 minutes.

    I'm open to suggestions as I don't know where to go from here, but please keep
the suggestions focused on what the problem with exim4 is. It's way too early to
change MTAs which will have a whole other batch of problems.

Thanks,
Mike
--
"So the universe is not quite as you thought it was.
 You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then.
 Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe."
    - Nightfall by Asimov/Silverberg


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