Dependency problems

[Niran Babalola]

I'm not so sure what's causing these problems, but try this and see if it helps:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/postfix stop
$ sudo apt-get -f install

After that, post the output if it's not the same.

- Niran

On Apr 9, 2005 6:55 AM, Douglas Alves <alves5 at cantv.net> wrote:
> Jon, here goes: (thanks a lot)
> 
> root at SirDragon:/home/douglas # apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> 9 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up postfix (2.1.5-9ubuntu3) ...
> 
> Postfix configuration was untouched.  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
>  * Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent...
>  *stfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is already
> running[fail]
> invoke-rc.d: initscript postfix, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of at:
>  at depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
>   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured
> yet.
> dpkg: error processing at (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailx:
>  mailx depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however:
>   Package exim4 is not installed.
>   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured
> yet.
> dpkg: error processing mailx (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mutt:
>  mutt depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however:
>   Package exim4 is not installed.
>   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured
> yet.
> dpkg: error processing mutt (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of anacron:
>  anacron depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however:
>   Package exim4 is not installed.
>   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured
> yet.
> dpkg: error processing anacron (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postfix-tls:
>  postfix-tls depends on postfix; however:
>   Package postfix is not configured yet.
>  postfix-tls depends on postfix (= 2.1.5-9ubuntu3); however:
>   Package postfix is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing postfix-tls (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-base:
>  ubuntu-base depends on at; however:
>   Package at is not configured yet.
>  ubuntu-base depends on mailx; however:
>   Package mailx is not configured yet.
>  ubuntu-base depends on mutt; however:
>   Package mutt is not configured yet.
>  ubuntu-base depends on postfix; however:
>   Package postfix is not configured yet.
>  ubuntu-base depends on postfix-tls; however:
>   Package postfix-tls is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing ubuntu-base (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lsb:
>  lsb depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however:
>   Package exim4 is not installed.
>   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured
> yet.
>  lsb depends on at; however:
>   Package at is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing lsb (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
>  ubuntu-desktop depends on anacron; however:
>   Package anacron is not configured yet.
>  ubuntu-desktop depends on lsb; however:
>   Package lsb is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  postfix
>  at
>  mailx
>  mutt
>  anacron
>  postfix-tls
>  ubuntu-base
>  lsb
>  ubuntu-desktop
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> root at SirDragon:/home/douglas #
> 
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