On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:19:46AM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Had you enabled the cron job and run sa-compile successfully prior to the > upgrade?
I don't remember. I had not touched the spamassassin setup for years. > My test system is a virtual machine on which only minimal packages were > installed (e.g. nothing was selected from tasksel, and the only individual > packages installed were openssh-server, spamassassin, and re2c), so it's hard > to see where there might be a missing dependency. As mentioned in the original report (why did you not cc the original reporter, btw?), the problem existed in between spamassassin upgrade and libc6-dev upgrade. If there was nothing holding back libc6-dev in your test apt-get upgrade (and it's likely that a minimal install would not have anything like that), the problem will not appear. If spamassassin did depend on the proper version of libc6-dev, it too would have been held back until dist-upgrade in my real-world case. $ grep -E 'spamassassin|libc9-dev' /var/log/dpkg.log 2012-07-20 15:27:03 upgrade spamassassin 3.3.1-1 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:27:03 status half-configured spamassassin 3.3.1-1 2012-07-20 15:27:03 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.1-1 2012-07-20 15:27:03 status half-installed spamassassin 3.3.1-1 2012-07-20 15:27:03 status half-installed spamassassin 3.3.1-1 2012-07-20 15:27:03 status half-installed spamassassin 3.3.1-1 2012-07-20 15:27:04 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:27:04 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 configure spamassassin 3.3.2-3 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 status unpacked spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:29:45 status half-configured spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:49:55 configure spamassassin 3.3.2-3 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:49:55 status half-configured spamassassin 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 15:58:21 upgrade libc6-dev 2.11.3-3 2.13-33 2012-07-20 15:58:21 status half-configured libc6-dev 2.11.3-3 2012-07-20 15:58:21 status unpacked libc6-dev 2.11.3-3 2012-07-20 15:58:21 status half-installed libc6-dev 2.11.3-3 2012-07-20 15:58:23 status half-installed libc6-dev 2.11.3-3 2012-07-20 15:58:24 status unpacked libc6-dev 2.13-33 2012-07-20 15:58:24 status unpacked libc6-dev 2.13-33 2012-07-20 16:03:12 configure spamassassin:all 3.3.2-3 <none> 2012-07-20 16:03:12 status half-configured spamassassin:all 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 16:04:12 status installed spamassassin:all 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 16:04:13 configure libc6-dev:i386 2.13-33 <none> 2012-07-20 16:04:13 status unpacked libc6-dev:i386 2.13-33 2012-07-20 16:04:13 status half-configured libc6-dev:i386 2.13-33 2012-07-20 16:04:13 status installed libc6-dev:i386 2.13-33 2012-07-20 16:32:17 status triggers-pending spamassassin:all 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 16:32:19 trigproc spamassassin:all 3.3.2-3 <none> 2012-07-20 16:32:19 status half-configured spamassassin:all 3.3.2-3 2012-07-20 16:33:37 status installed spamassassin:all 3.3.2-3 $ > For reference, here are the relevant bits from my upgrade transcript: Sorry, you deleted some relevant bits: > root@squeeze:~# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > ... > 72 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 116 not upgraded. What were those 72 packages? An interesting question is what would happen if instead of apt-get upgrade, you'd use "apt-get install spamassassin" after editing sources.list. That would likely expose the issue. (I may try this myself, in fact.) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antti-juhani/
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