[Bug 251377] Re: Problems with amavisd-new: cannot start the service

[Noway2]

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.

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