[ec2-beta] I just wanted to report a few things with Ubuntu on EC2

[Mirza Borogovac]

I am not sure what I am doing here so bear with me. I am not asking for
help, I am just trying to report a bug. I was trying to create instance
of ubuntu server on EC2 and I was unsuccessful. Here are few notes that
I took:

on the site https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2StartersGuide

LInes that go into .bashrc: 
	- I have Java-6-sun rather than java-1.5.0-sun
	- once you write lines into .bashrc, you need to somehow have systemtake them. I had to restart computer

Once I created an instance:

1. I logged in as root
2. I chose default configuration
3. System then kicked me out and told me to log in as Ubuntu
4. Once I loged in again, I typed sudo apt-get install postfix
5. I chose web server configuration. 
6. on the next screen I put in
ec2-174-129-156-217.compute-1.amazonaws.com
I am not sure if this is correct since I have no idea what I am doing.
Well installation exited abruptly with error. Even though I'm a dummy, installation should not just crash. Here is console output:


> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install postfix
> [sudo] password for ubuntu: 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   openssl-blacklist ssl-cert
> Suggested packages:
>   procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre sasl2-bin
>   resolvconf postfix-cdb mail-reader
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   openssl-blacklist postfix ssl-cert
> 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 7569kB of archives.
> After this operation, 15.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
> Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main openssl-blacklist 0.4.2 [6337kB]
> Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main ssl-cert 1.0.23 [13.2kB]
> Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main postfix 2.5.5-1 [1219kB]
> Fetched 7569kB in 2s (3235kB/s)
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Selecting previously deselected package openssl-blacklist.
> (Reading database ... 17632 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking openssl-blacklist (from .../openssl-blacklist_0.4.2_all.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package ssl-cert.
> Unpacking ssl-cert (from .../ssl-cert_1.0.23_all.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package postfix.
> Unpacking postfix (from .../postfix_2.5.5-1_i386.deb) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Processing triggers for ufw ...
> Setting up openssl-blacklist (0.4.2) ...
> Setting up ssl-cert (1.0.23) ...
> 
> Setting up postfix (2.5.5-1) ...
> Adding group `postfix' (GID 114) ...
> Done.
> Adding system user `postfix' (UID 106) ...
> Adding new user `postfix' (UID 106) with group `postfix' ...
> Not creating home directory `/var/spool/postfix'.
> Creating /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
> Adding tcp map entry to /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
> Adding group `postdrop' (GID 115) ...
> Done.
> setting myhostname: ubuntu.
> setting alias maps
> setting alias database
> changing /etc/mailname to ec2-174-129-156-217.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> setting myorigin
> setting destinations: ec2-174-129-156-217.compute-1.amazonaws.com, ubuntu., localhost., localhost
> setting relayhost: 
> setting mynetworks: 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
> setting mailbox_size_limit: 0
> setting recipient_delimiter: +
> setting inet_interfaces: all
> /etc/aliases does not exist, creating it.
> WARNING: /etc/aliases exists, but does not have a root alias.
> 
> Postfix is now set up with a default configuration.  If you need to make 
> changes, edit
> /etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed.  To view Postfix configuration
> values, see postconf(1).
> 
> After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'.
> 
> Running newaliases
> newaliases: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: mydomain = 
> dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 75
> Processing triggers for libc6 ...
> ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  postfix
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)