Public bug reported:
No mail-related packages are listed as dependencies, but the fex server
fails to produce output to a standard web browser if you don't have a
sendmail binary available. Chromium for example says "the connection
was interrupted" with no further detail; I only figured out what was
going on because I did telnet localhost 8888 - that way, I could see
me@banshee:~$ telnet localhost 8888
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
/usr/share/fex/bin/fexsrv: found no sendmail
I then did
me@banshee:~$ sudo apt-get install postfix mailutils
and after installing postfix and mailutils, browsing to localhost:8888
in a standard browser worked as expected.
Versions of Ubuntu and Fex installed as follows:
me@banshee:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
me@banshee:~$ apt-cache policy fex
fex:
Installed: 20110622-1ubuntu1
Candidate: 20110622-1ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 20110622-1ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
** Affects: fex (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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fex depends on sendmail binary
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