reopen 770695 severity 770695 grave thanks On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Michael Hatzold wrote:
"dpkg --configure -a" didn't work due the dpkg lock. While searching for other processes which might be in the way htop showed me a file called "dovecot-core.po" where the "S" column was marked "Z" . (I have no clue what this means or whether or not this is valuable info, I telling you anyway I case it is).
It is. Unfortunately it makes the problem even more mysterious. That is the localization file for debconf questions. It was removed from the package several versions ago. The question is why is it still there?
What is the output of: debconf-show dovecot-core
After a reboot I could issue "dpkg --configure -a" which then configured dovecot-core, started the IMAP server and returned to the prompt.
So you did not reboot after previous installs? Perhaps the .po file was cached somehow? I will ask some more experienced Debian people if they have any insight into what could be happening.
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