Public bug reported:
Upgrading an existing 7.10 to 8.04 failed so badly that it finished with
the worrying "Sorry your installation may not work" or similar.
The problem was in the Sendmail upgrade that failed badly and then
seemed to take out the Apache2 upgrade as well, and the upgrade manager
seemed to just give up after that. Tracing the problem revealed that
sendmail-bin was where the problem happened and specifically in the
Makefile. The failure appeared to be due firstly to an illegal
path/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4, instead of /usr/share/sendmail-
cf/m4/cf.m4, and a dependency on /etc/amil/databases - the file did not
exist.
The sendmail installation had been working fine before the upgrade. The
server was originally a clean install of 7.04, which had then been
upgraded to 7.10. All updates applied and no specials other than edits
to sendmail.mc to add support for the virtual user table, and hashed
aliases database.
The only fix was to completely uninstall sendmail (first saving the
config files), and then to perform a new installation - and then restore
the configuration.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Sendmail Upgrade failed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226948
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