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has caused the Debian Bug report #337138,
regarding exim: db3_upgrade appears to fail silently in postinst
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Package: exim
Version: 3.36-17
Severity: normal
Since I kept getting messages like,
failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: File exists,
I found bug 248622. However, I am already beyond the version where this was
fixed. Running db3_upgrade manually solved the problem. Curious as to why
this didn't happen automatically, I looked at exim.postinst and found that
it calls
db3_upgrade /var/spool/exim/db/* || true
I then ran db3_upgrade * in that directory, and the result was:
db_upgrade: reject.lockfile: unrecognized file type
db_upgrade: DB->upgrade: reject.lockfile: Invalid argument
So, it seems during postinst only reject was upgraded, and after that
db3_upgrade failed. The || true ensures that this failure is never noticed.
There should probably be a loop over all files in the directory instead.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages exim depends on:
ii cron 3.0pl1-91 management of regular background p
ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb3 3.2.9-22 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii libident 0.22-3 simple RFC1413 client library - ru
ii libldap2 2.1.30-12 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpcre3 6.4-1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
Versions of packages exim recommends:
ii netbase 4.23 Basic TCP/IP networking system
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.36-18.2+rm
The exim package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/420191 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
Barry deFreese
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