The issue might be indeed that postfix is not running. It appears that starting the policyd daemon "just" fails in your case.
The code for this is just: start) echo -n "Starting $DESC: " start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- -c $DAEMON_CONFIG echo "$NAME." ;; Try running the daemon from the command line, maybe there's more info. ** Description changed: Binary package hint: postfix-policyd startup error: postfix-policyd current system info: d...@dt-mbpro:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.04 Release: 9.04 - d...@dt-mbpro:~$ uname -a + d...@dt-mbpro:~$ uname -a Linux dt-MBPro 2.6.28-13-server #44-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 08:47:41 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Believe it is similar to Bug 92386 but did not take screenshot (yesterday when bug occurred and then had to wait for registration)--have since removed postfix-policyd and upgraded to 9.04 (from 8.04 but not without issues)... I am setting up a LAMP server to run/test various packages including KOHA & Moodle and wanted email server available, so am not sure what app caused startup conflict for postfix-policyd... looked at log files but have not determined which if any apply. I did not expect any issues since postfix is not configured - if postfix-policyd wants postfix enabled it should install in off state, ask for configuration or should not install. Kind Regards, Don ProblemType: Package Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Package: postfix-policyd 1.82-2 SourcePackage: postfix-policyd Title: package postfix-policyd 1.82-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-server i686 + + + ERROR: + Setting up postfix-policyd (1.82-2) ... + dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/postfix-policyd.conf + *** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but + the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer + script should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf, + and pass it this parameter. For now, ucf will revert to using + old-style, non-debconf prompting. Ugh! + + Please inform the package maintainer about this problem. + dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password + Starting Postfix greylisting policy daemon: invoke-rc.d: initscript postfix-policyd, action "start" failed. + dpkg: error processing postfix-policyd (--configure): + subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 ** Changed in: postfix-policyd (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: postfix-policyd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: postfix-policyd (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- errors on startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390293 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs -- universe-bugs mailing list universe-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs