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[Gutsy] Dependency Problems on Dovecot

Bug #153161 reported by Dax Solomon Umaming
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
dovecot (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Mathias Gug
Ubuntu gutsy-updates

Bug Description

I installed Ubuntu Server RC on my server. When I installed Dovecot, I had errors configuring it. I dpkg --configured it, but it's still spitting out errors. It works fine though once I restart it, but I don't think I can upgrade it.

dax@server:~$ apt-cache madison dovecot
   dovecot | 1:1.0.5-1ubuntu2 |

dax@server:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up dovecot-common (1:1.0.5-1ubuntu2) ...
Not replacing deleted config file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf
chmod: cannot access `/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing dovecot-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dovecot-pop3d:
 dovecot-pop3d depends on dovecot-common (= 1:1.0.5-1ubuntu2); however:
  Package dovecot-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing dovecot-pop3d (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dovecot-imapd:
 dovecot-imapd depends on dovecot-common (= 1:1.0.5-1ubuntu2); however:
  Package dovecot-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing dovecot-imapd (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dovecot-common
 dovecot-pop3d
 dovecot-imapd

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/dovecot
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Adam Sommer (asommer) wrote :

Was it a clean install or an upgrade? Also, did you use apt-get install or another method?

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Dax Solomon Umaming (knightlust) wrote :

It was a clean install. I installed it last Saturday. This morning, when I tried to update it, that's when the dependency error showed up.

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Adam Sommer (asommer) wrote :

Did you delete the /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf file? If so you may need to create an empty /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf file, then try to apt-get --configure -a.

With some packages apt tries to handle config files in a sane way.

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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

As mentioned by asommer, you've probably deleted /etc/doveco/dovecot-ldap.conf. If you recreate it, the upgrade should work.

Changed in dovecot:
assignee: nobody → mathiaz
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → gutsy-updates
status: New → Triaged
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Dax Solomon Umaming (knightlust) wrote :

@asommer
Thanks, it's working now. I guess I should've mentioned that I backed-up /etc/dovecot, did a fresh Gutsy install, and mv'd dovecot to my server.

@Mathias
I think you should close this as invalid

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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote : Re: [Bug 153161] Re: [Gutsy] Dependency Problems on Dovecot

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 04:02:39PM -0000, Dax Solomon Umaming wrote:
> @asommer
> Thanks, it's working now. I guess I should've mentioned that I backed-up /etc/dovecot, did a fresh Gutsy install, and mv'd dovecot to my server.
>
> @Mathias
> I think you should close this as invalid
>

Thanks.

I think that the postinst scripts should be fixed to not fail if conffile
are not present. Thus keeping it triaged.

--
Mathias

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Adam Sommer (asommer) wrote :

I don't currently have a development environment setup, or I'd post a debdiff file, but here's a diff for dovecot-common.postinst that may take care of the file missing issue. Justed added a if [ -e $conffile ] to the for loop wrapping the ucf and ucfr statements. I think that will work?

Thought I'd take a crack at it anyway.

Thanks Mathias

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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote :

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 05:15:34PM -0000, asommer wrote:
> ** Attachment added: "dovecot-common.postinst.diff"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10049894/dovecot-common.postinst.diff

Almost. Your changes looks good, but the bug report is about the chmod,
which should also be protected by a test.

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Adam Sommer (asommer) wrote :

Ah... quite right. I missed that in the posted output.

Thanks again Mathias

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Soren Hansen (soren) wrote :

I've prepared an upload for this issue for when the archive opens for
hardy.

--
Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/

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Soren Hansen (soren) wrote :

dovecot (1:1.0.5-1ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low

  * Don't fail in postinst if dovecot-{sql,ldap} is missing. (LP: #153161)
    Thanks to Adam Sommer for the initial patch!

 -- Soren Hansen <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:59:23 +0200

Changed in dovecot:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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