On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 04:40:01AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Sat November 4 2006 02:29, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:06:01PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > > > ...would seem to indicate that it is a transitory situation caused > > > by the upgrade process. > > > > Probably. Did killing the existing daemon manually help with starting > > the new daemon? > > I did not need to restart exim4. I saw the message in the INBOX > associated with /var/mail/spool, then ran the ps|grep command you saw > the output of.
Anyway, you had an extra daemon running which interfered with your update. > The mainlog just prior to the paniclog entry I included shows periodic > Start and End queue run messages, 10 socket bind() failures at 30s > intervals, then more Start/End queue runs. Yes, that's exim4's default behavior if it cannot bind to any configured smtp listening port. > > > The result is daily... > > > > > > -e Subject: exim paniclog on onegee has non-zero size > > > To: root > > > > > > exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on onegee has non-zero size, > > > mail system might be broken > > > > > > ...messages when there is no problem. > > > > Yes, you'll need to rotate the paniclog away manually. See > > /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz chapter 2.5.1 > > > > If the message is continuously being written again and again over and > > over, you have probably still an old daemon running. > > I understand that, but it doesn't seem right to have to do it after an > upgrade if all is well... hence the report. Yes. I am desparately trying to find out what went wrong on your system as the issue is not reproducible here and no other users are reporting this. > Unfortunately I can not reliably reproduce this bug. Nine attempts at: > #apt-get --reinstall install exim4-daemon-light > got me two failures initially then seven successes. I have another box > running the light daemon and one running the heavy daemon, neither of > them have had a panic. :-/ I am afraid that then there is nothing to do except tagging this bug unreproducible and closing it by the end of November. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]