[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laurent Geyer) wrote: >I hope there hasn't been a similar post to this list already but I >couldn't find anything in the archives so I figured I'd see if somebody >could help me out. I ran an apt-get update and upgrade last night and >have since have had problems getting past the postfix preinstallation >routine. The upgrade fails with following error message(s): > >Preconfiguring packages ... >(Reading database ... 22394 files and directories currently installed.) >Preparing to replace postfix 0.0.19991231pl05-2 (using >.../postfix_0.0.20010502.SNAPSHOT-2_i386.deb) ... >Stopping mail transport agent: Postfix. >dpkg: error processing >/var/cache/apt/archives/postfix_0.0.20010502.SNAPSHOT-2_i386.deb >(--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
This sort of thing is often a matter for a bug report against the package concerned; you can look at postfix's open bugs at http://bugs.debian.org/postfix. In this case, three were filed (#97763, #98008, and #98116), and they're all now closed. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
