I would like to add a note of confirmation that this "bug" is still alive. I updated my server to 9.10 (Karmic) this last Sunday and upon doing so noticed that amavis was not starting upon reboot. I could successfully issue a command 'sudo /etc/init.d/amavis start' and it would start without error. I scoured the logs and could not find any sort of indication as to the trouble. Normally, I have amavis listening on port 10024 for output from postfix. Neither the amavis processes appeared in a ps list nor was any process listening on this port.
I was able to 'resolve' this issue by explicitly setting $mydomain=my.fqdn in the amavis configruation file 50-user. I confirmed that undoing this setting resulted in a return of the problem and restoring it corrects the situation. Further investigation in the mail.warn log shows that there was a potential problem at least a week prior to my updating to 9.10, but the situation suddenly corrected itself. I assume that this was due to a cron task restarting amavis. I also located this post on ubuntu forums.org that lead me to the 'fix'. Apparently this was an issue several years ago, became a non-issue as I successfully ran a server for almost a year without it, and then became an issue again. Re:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=277838 I also encountered threads suggesting a problem with Perl updates and missing libraries, but these did not provide resolution. -- Problems with amavisd-new: cannot start the service https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to amavisd-new in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
