[Bug 1490607] [NEW] Improve feedback of postfix systemd unit start failure

[Karl-Philipp Richter]

Public bug reported:

The output in `journalctl -u postfix` is

    Aug 31 17:09:24 richtercloud systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Postfix Mail Transport Agent...
    -- Subject: Unit postfix.service has begun start-up
    -- Defined-By: systemd
    -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
    -- 
    -- Unit postfix.service has begun starting up.
    Aug 31 17:09:24 richtercloud postfix[15171]: * Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix
    Aug 31 17:09:25 richtercloud postfix[15171]: ...fail!
    Aug 31 17:09:25 richtercloud systemd[1]: postfix.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
    Aug 31 17:09:25 richtercloud systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Postfix Mail Transport Agent.
    -- Subject: Unit postfix.service has failed
    -- Defined-By: systemd
    -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
    -- 
    -- Unit postfix.service has failed.
    -- 
    -- The result is failed.
    Aug 31 17:09:25 richtercloud systemd[1]: Unit postfix.service entered failed state.
    Aug 31 17:09:25 richtercloud systemd[1]: postfix.service failed.

which doesn't contain any useful information about the reason for the
failure.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: postfix 2.11.3-1ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 4.1.3-040103-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 31 14:41:32 2015
EtcMailname: richtercloud.de
Hostname: richtercloud
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-20 (132 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.2)
PostconfMydomain: localdomain
PostconfMyhostname: richtercloud.de
PostconfMyorigin: /etc/mailname
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ResolvConf:
 # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
 #     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
 nameserver 192.168.178.1
 nameserver 127.0.0.1
SourcePackage: postfix
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-24 (128 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.postfix.post.install: 2013-03-12T04:08:14
mtime.conffile..etc.postfix.postfix.files: 2013-03-12T04:08:14
mtime.conffile..etc.postfix.postfix.script: 2013-03-12T04:08:14

** Affects: postfix (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug vivid

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  Improve feedback of postfix systemd unit start failure

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