Bug#484246: postifx installation broken

2008-06-03 Thread Walter Sparbier
Subject: Warning: Newline present in parameters passed to debconf
Package: postfix
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Tags: l10n

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)


i Installed Debian 4.0 r0

Updated with apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade afterwards. Then i tried
to install postfix.



apt-get install postfix
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  openssl ssl-cert
Suggested packages:
  ca-certificates postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre 
sasl2-bin libsasl2-modules resolvconf postfix-cdb
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openssl postfix ssl-cert
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2101kB of archives.
After unpacking 1163kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://ftp.freenet.de etch/main ssl-cert 1.0.14 [11.1kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.freenet.de etch/main postfix 2.3.8-2+b1 [1089kB]
Get:3 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main openssl 0.9.8c-4etch3 
[1001kB]
Fetched 2101kB in 6s (316kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Warning: Newline present in parameters passed to debconf.
This will probably cause strange things to happen!

The installation starts. I used Internet Access with smarthost
I have the possibility to enter the dns name of my smarthost.
Then i see the output and the system hangs with the error listed above.

I can get back to the prompt by typing CTRL-C.

Postfix is not installed:

 dpkg --status postfix
 Package `postfix' is not installed and no info is available.
 Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
 and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

It is possilble to install postfix by choosing no configuration during
the installation.

Then i started dpkg-reconfigure postfix

- internet access with smarthost

Now is see the following window:

   â Give a comma-separated list of domains that this machine should 
consider itself the final destination for.  If this is a mail domain 
gateway, you   â
   â probably want to include the top-level 
domain. 
 
â
   
â
 
â
   â Other destinations to accept mail for? (blank for 
none)
 
â
   
â
 
â
   â Internet with smarthost, mailrelay.local, localhost.no-ip.org, 
localhost
 
â
   
â
 
â
   
â    
Ok    
Cancel 
â
   
â
 
â


I assume that the Internet with smarthost entry is causing the problem 
during the initial installation.

Later during the installation i got the following error 


   
¤ 
Postfix Configuration 

   
â
 
â
   â Bad recipient 
delimiter
 
â
   
â
 
â
   â The recipient 
delimiter is a single character, you entered too many characters.  Please 
try again.  â
   
â
 
â
   â 
ok   
 
â
   
â
 
â
   
â 

Bug#484246: postifx installation broken

2008-06-03 Thread Claudio Bazan
hi walter:

add lines on /etc/apt/sources.list , and try to run, apt-get update and then
apt-get install postfix

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main

and tell me if you fix this problem.

regards
claudio.


On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Walter Sparbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Subject: Warning: Newline present in parameters passed to debconf
 Package: postfix
 Severity: grave
 Justification: renders package unusable
 Tags: l10n

 *** Please type your report below this line ***


 -- System Information:
 Debian Release: 4.0
   APT prefers stable
   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
 Architecture: i386 (i686)
 Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
 Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)


 i Installed Debian 4.0 r0

 Updated with apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade afterwards. Then i tried
 to install postfix.



 apt-get install postfix
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree... Done
 The following extra packages will be installed:
   openssl ssl-cert
 Suggested packages:
   ca-certificates postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre
 sasl2-bin libsasl2-modules resolvconf postfix-cdb
 The following packages will be REMOVED:
   exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
 The following NEW packages will be installed:
   openssl postfix ssl-cert
 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
 Need to get 2101kB of archives.
 After unpacking 1163kB of additional disk space will be used.
 Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
 Get:1 http://ftp.freenet.de etch/main ssl-cert 1.0.14 [11.1kB]
 Get:2 http://ftp.freenet.de etch/main postfix 2.3.8-2+b1 [1089kB]
 Get:3 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main openssl 0.9.8c-4etch3
 [1001kB]
 Fetched 2101kB in 6s (316kB/s)
 Preconfiguring packages ...
 Warning: Newline present in parameters passed to debconf.
 This will probably cause strange things to happen!

 The installation starts. I used Internet Access with smarthost
 I have the possibility to enter the dns name of my smarthost.
 Then i see the output and the system hangs with the error listed above.

 I can get back to the prompt by typing CTRL-C.

 Postfix is not installed:

  dpkg --status postfix
  Package `postfix' is not installed and no info is available.
  Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
  and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

 It is possilble to install postfix by choosing no configuration during
 the installation.

 Then i started dpkg-reconfigure postfix

 - internet access with smarthost

 Now is see the following window:

â Give a comma-separated list of domains that this machine should
 consider itself the final destination for.  If this is a mail domain
 gateway, you   â
â probably want to include the top-level
 domain.
 â

 â
 â
â Other destinations to accept mail for? (blank for
 none)
 â

 â
 â
â Internet with smarthost, mailrelay.local, localhost.no-ip.org,
 localhost
 â

 â
 â
â
 Ok
 Cancel â

 â
 â


 I assume that the Internet with smarthost entry is causing the problem
 during the initial installation.

 Later during the installation i got the following error


¤
 Postfix Configuration 

 â
 â
â Bad recipient
 delimiter
 â

 â
 â
â The recipient delimiter is a single character,
 you entered too many characters.  Please try again.  â

 â
 â
â
 ok
 â

 â
 â
â
 Ok  â

 â
 â

 âââ



 I have not changed anything and used the default:
 see here:


  ââ¤
 Postfix Configuration ââ
  â What character defines a
 local address extension?   â

 â â
  â To not use address
 extensions, leave the string blank.  â

 â â
  â Local address extension
 character?  â

 â â
  â
 +__ â

 â â
  â
 Ok 

Bug#484246: Fwd: Re: Bug#484246: postifx installation broken

2008-06-03 Thread Walter Sparbier
Hi Claudio,

i modified my sources.list to use the official debian resositories you 
mentioned below.
I removed postfix with apt-get remove postfix,
updated the package list with apt-get update, deleted /etc/postfix and 
reinstalled postfix.
After that i started dpkg-reconfigre postfix.

I still have exactly the same behaviour.

Other destinations to accept mail for? 

   Internet with smarthost, mailrelay.local, localhost.no-ip.org,

- Internet with smarthost makes no sense

i deleted this part and left marthost, mailrelay.local, localhost.no-ip.org

Later the configuration don't let me choose a character (windows What character
 defines a local address extension? 

Regards,
Walter

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