dependancy problems since Edgy upgrade

[Brian Walker]

Greetings all,

A series of minor errors were reported during a dist upgrade (took forever
too, huh? Broadband connection and 14 hours later still upgrading ...) end
result is a good functioning desktop, but errors in several areas, notably
exim4, tripwire and rkhunter.  Mutt also hosed, but it always is due to
other issues with configuration ...

Here is what I get on attempting to configure exim4 which - according to
apt-get and synaptic - is installed.  I had removed exim4, then reinstalled
via apt-get, not wishing to use synaptic which - last time I tried with
ssmtp and exim, resulted in both packages being broken.


root at brian-desktop:~# apt-get install exim4
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   exim4
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 7 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 1638B of archives.
> After unpacking 32.8kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main exim4 4.62-2 [1638B]
> Fetched 1638B in 0s (1947B/s)
> Selecting previously deselected package exim4.
> (Reading database ... 196694 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking exim4 (from .../archives/exim4_4.62-2_all.deb) ...
> Setting up exim4-config (4.62-2) ...
> 2006-11-23 14:53:39 Exim configuration error in line 151 of
> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
>   main option "acl_whitelist_local_deny" unknown
> Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp
> not installing /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to
> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
> dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-base:
>  exim4-base depends on exim4-config (>= 4.30) | exim4-config-2; however:
>   Package exim4-config is not configured yet.
>   Package exim4-config-2 is not installed.
>   Package exim4-config which provides exim4-config-2 is not configured
> yet.
> dpkg: error processing exim4-base (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-daemon-heavy:
>  exim4-daemon-heavy depends on exim4-base (>= 4.62); however:
>   Package exim4-base is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-heavy (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4:
>  exim4 depends on exim4-base (>= 4.62); however:
>   Package exim4-base is not configured yet.
>  exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy |
> exim4-daemon-custom; however:
>   Package exim4-daemon-light is not installed.
>   Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not configured yet.
>   Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tripwire:
>  tripwire depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however:
>   Package exim4 is not configured yet.
>   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package ssmtp which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package exim4-daemon-heavy which provides mail-transport-agent is not
> configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing tripwire (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mutt:
>  mutt depends on postfix | mail-transport-agent; however:
>   Package postfix is not installed.
>   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package ssmtp which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package exim4-daemon-heavy which provides mail-transport-agent is not
> configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing mutt (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of muttprofile:
>  muttprofile depends on mutt; however:
>   Package mutt is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing muttprofile (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rkhunter:
>  rkhunter depends on exim4 | postfix | sendmail | mail-transport-agent;
> however:
>   Package exim4 is not configured yet.
>   Package postfix is not installed.
>   Package sendmail is not installed.
>   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package ssmtp which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package exim4-daemon-heavy which provides mail-transport-agent is not
> configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing rkhunter (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  exim4-config
>  exim4-base
>  exim4-daemon-heavy
>  exim4
>  tripwire
>  mutt
>  muttprofile
>  rkhunter
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>

It seems clear what is wrong, but what is not clear is how to fix it. Hours
later, and here I am to see if anyone here has a good idea for fixing it?

All the best to all

Brian
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