severity 512369 normal thanks On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:59:24PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > > I'd expect retrying in the background or even leaving it disabled, but > > postinst failure seems too intrusive. > > Well, you supplied it with localhost as the IMAP server name, or installed > it with a too high debconf priority and thus implicitly accepted this > setting:
Yes. Possibly the medium priority is too low, but that's fine tuning. > So the same things happens in all packages that use > debhelper to take care of init script installation and encounter some kind > of configuration that is not compatible with the local situation. It could be a remote situation as well if it's not 'localhost': network outage, remote server downtime etc. > I think that it's logical that a service that can't be started after > installation causes the installation to give an error. You are then given > the option to correct the situation and finish the installation later. The keyword for me here is 'proxy'. I think a proxy should be able to start even when the remote server is (possibly temporarily) unavailable. Just issuing a warning at startup would be fine. If the server refuses the connection, so should the proxy. But OK, I can see this probably shouldn't be RC. Thanks and sorry for the noise. -- Niko Tyni [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
