hi there, i faced this problem today, I installed some days ago Nagios3 with no problem, but today I face it, the bug I saw is here:
zahra@NagiosServer:~$ sudo apt-get install nagios3 [sudo] password for zahra: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done nagios3 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 117 not upgraded. 6 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Setting up postfix (2.8.5-2~build1) ... Postfix configuration was not changed. If you need to make changes, edit /etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed. To view Postfix configuration values, see postconf(1). After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'. Running newaliases newaliases: warning: valid_hostname: invalid character 40(decimal): NagiosServer.(null) newaliases: fatal: file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter myhostname: bad parameter value: NagiosServer.(null) dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 75 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsd-mailx: bsd-mailx depends on default-mta | mail-transport-agent; however: Package default-mta is not installed. Package postfix which provides default-mta is not configured yet. Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing bsd-mailx (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nagios3-common: nagios3-common depends on bsd-mailx | mailx; however: Package bsd-mailx is not configured yet. Package mailx is not installed. Package bsd-mailx which provides mailx is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing nagios3-common (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nagios3-cgi: nagios3-cgi depends on nagios3-common (= 3.2.3-3); however: Package nagios3-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing nagios3-cgi (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nagios3-core: nagios3-core depends on nagios3-common (= 3.2.3-3); however: Package nagios3-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing nagios3-core (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nagios3: nagios3 depends on nagios3-core (= 3.2.3-3); however: Package nagios3-core is not configured yet. nagios3 depends on nagios3-cgi (= 3.2.3-3); however: Package nagios3-cgi is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing nagios3 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Errors were encountered while processing: postfix bsd-mailx nagios3-common nagios3-cgi nagios3-core nagios3 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) so I edited the file "/etc/postfix/main.cf" and placed the true name for: myhostname mydestination at installation I named it "NagiosServer.local" but it did not changed "myhostname" and placed it "NagiosServer.(null)" !!! and also at this file for "mydestination" it wroted: mydestination = NagiosServer.local, NagiosServer.(null), localhost.(null), localhost and I changed teh "null"s to "local" and tryed again and it is installed and running like charm :) tnx -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/704766 Title: unable to install nagios3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nagios3/+bug/704766/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs