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On 2008-04-20 Laurent Fousse <laurent@komite.net> wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-light
> Version: 4.69-2+b1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to install

> Hello,

> I get the following installation error:

>     Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ...
>     Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
>     invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
>     dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
>      subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>     Errors were encountered while processing:
>      exim4-daemon-light
>     E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

> Looking at `EX4DEBUG=1 /etc/init.d/exim4 restart`, exim is run with
> arguments "-bd -q30m '' '' ''". The three empty strings seem to
> confuse exim.
[...]

Hello,
Please provide the complete debugging output, and the contents of
/etc/init.d/exim4 and /etc/default/exim4

thanks, cu andreas



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