Thanks for going through this with me.
It seems that you have two problems:
1) You're asked to accept the changelogs before the upgrade proceeds.
2) You're prompted by debconf for postfix configuration options before the
upgrade proceeds.
The first is due to your decision to install
This is specifically caused by having non-default
smtp_recipient_restrictions, which changed behavior in 2.10, and postfix
needs to know how you want to proceed. The answer to the question can
be preseeded if you so desire. There is no bug here.
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You received this bug notification because
@Andrew
You missed my request for the full textual output of the upgrade failure
when run with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text. Please could you run through my
instructions again, attach this output, and set the bug status back to
New?
Thanks!
** Changed in: postfix (Ubuntu)
Status: New =
Also, as of Friday afternoon (Sydney, Australia time), I won't have
access to the machines and backups so I won't be able to provide any
more debugging info - if there's anything more that I can provide to
help out it'd be good to know before then. Thanks!
** Changed in: postfix (Ubuntu)
I tested this again on a clone of one of our other machines which hadn't
had it's packaged upgraded.
I ran sudo apt-get update, then sudo apt-get upgrade.
The following packages were going to be upgraded:
accountsservice apache2-utils apt apt-transport-https apt-utils bash
bind9-host
Thanks for your reply. It's great that you've got a clone - presumably
even though I can't reproduce the issue, you can?
Could you please clone again, but perform a few steps differently this
time? This will help diagnose the issue.
First, I don't understand what the changelog is in less at all.
Actually, instead of installing debconf-tools and running debconf-get-
selections, could you please instead run this command:
sed -n '/postfix/,/^$/p' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat /tmp/postfix-
config.txt
And then attach /tmp/postfix-config.txt to this bug? This will provide
more information.
I've spun up another clone and have got the info you requested:
The output from dpkg-query -W postfix was postfix 2.9.3-2~12.04.4
I've also attached the output from sed -n '/postfix/,/^$/p'
/var/cache/debconf/config.dat
** Attachment added: output from sed -n '/postfix/,/^$/p'
Thank you for reporting this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
I was unable to reproduce this issue upgrading from 2.9.1-4 to
2.9.6-1~12.04.1. A simple upgrade (without overriding DEBIAN_FRONTEND,
even) didn't prompt me at all.
Can you describe exactly what you are being prompted for?
