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exim4 package

package exim4-base 4.69-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 3

Bug #243655 reported by thrasher6900 on 2008-06-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #220819: exim4 cannot be removed, if stopped. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	exim4 (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: exim4

I just cannot un install it for some reason.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jun 27 20:09:46 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 3
Package: exim4-base 4.69-2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: exim4
Title: package exim4-base 4.69-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 3
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

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thrasher6900 (thrasher6900) wrote on 2008-06-28:

Dependencies.txt Edit (850 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (88.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Marcus Asshauer (mcas) wrote on 2008-06-28:

Thank you for reporting this bug. Have you tried an apt-get update and the apt-get install -f?

Changed in exim4:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote on 2008-08-04:

Here is the error:

Removing exim4-base ...
* Stopping MTA
/sbin/start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 5387: No such process
invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing exim4-base (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 3