Bug#813692: ejabberd: Failed RPC connection to the node ejabberd@mercurius: timeout

[Dominik George]

Package: ejabberd
Version: 16.01-1~bpo8+1
Severity: normal

Upgrading to 16.01, postinst throws:

Failed RPC connection to the node ejabberd@mercurius: timeout

ejabberd was up and running and working perfectly before starting the update.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages ejabberd depends on:
ii  adduser                        3.113+nmu3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]          1.5.56
ii  erlang-asn1                    1:18.0-dfsg-1
ii  erlang-base [erlang-abi-17.0]  1:18.0-dfsg-1
ii  erlang-crypto                  1:18.0-dfsg-1
ii  erlang-inets                   1:18.0-dfsg-1
ii  erlang-lager                   2.0.3-1
ii  erlang-mnesia                  1:18.0-dfsg-1
ii  erlang-odbc                    1:18.0-dfsg-1
ii  erlang-p1-cache-tab            1.0.1-1~bpo8+1
ii  erlang-p1-iconv                0.2016.01.05-1~bpo8+1
ii  erlang-p1-stringprep           1.0.0-1~bpo8+1
ii  erlang-p1-tls                  1.0.0-1~bpo8+1
ii  erlang-p1-utils                1.0.3-1~bpo8+1
ii  erlang-p1-xml                  1.1.1-1~bpo8+1
ii  erlang-p1-yaml                 1.0.0-1~bpo8+1
ii  erlang-p1-zlib                 1.0.0-1~bpo8+1
ii  erlang-public-key              1:18.0-dfsg-1
ii  erlang-ssl                     1:18.0-dfsg-1
ii  erlang-syntax-tools            1:18.0-dfsg-1
ii  erlang-xmerl                   1:18.0-dfsg-1
ii  init-system-helpers            1.22
ii  openssl                        1.0.1k-3+deb8u2
ii  ucf                            3.0030

ejabberd recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ejabberd suggests:
pn  apparmor             <none>
pn  apparmor-utils       <none>
ii  ejabberd-contrib     0.2016.01.12~dfsg0-1~bpo8+1
pn  erlang-oauth2        <none>
ii  erlang-p1-mysql      0.2014.03.10-2
ii  erlang-p1-pam        0.2014.05.05-2
ii  erlang-p1-pgsql      0.2014.04.30-1
ii  erlang-p1-sip        0.2014.07.17-2
ii  erlang-p1-stun       0.2014.08.20-1
ii  erlang-redis-client  1.0.8-1
pn  erlang-sqlite3       <none>
ii  imagemagick          8:6.8.9.9-5
ii  libunix-syslog-perl  1.1-2+b4

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ejabberd/inetrc [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung: u'/etc/ejabberd/inetrc'
/etc/ejabberd/modules.d/README.modules [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung: 
u'/etc/ejabberd/modules.d/README.modules'

-- debconf information excluded