Bug#1107714: debian-edu: autopkgtest regression: dovecot-core fails to install

Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:08:40 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.education
Organization	DAS-NETZWERKTEAM
Message-ID	<20250613080840.Horde.KKHSFVwoUHxth5gb-PK1rkT__33642.3569986195$1749802895$gmane$org@mail.das-netzwerkteam.de>

Hi Paul,

On  Do 12 Jun 2025 17:00:50 CEST, Paul Gevers wrote:

> Source: debian-edu
> Version: 2.12.17
> Severity: serious
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: regression
>
> Dear maintainer(s),
>
> Your package has an autopkgtest, great. However, it fails since  
> recently. Can you please investigate the situation and fix it? I  
> copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. The package  
> is installing packages (I believe that's it's purpose), but when it  
> installs dovecot-core, that fails. However, the piuparts run of  
> src:dovecot passes, so I suspect the issue lies in src:debian-edu.  
> Please reassign if I got that wrong.
>
> The release team has announced [1] that failing autopkgtest on amd64  
> and arm64 are considered RC in testing.
>
> More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be  
> found on  
> https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation
>
> Paul
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/07/msg00002.html
>
> https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/d/debian-edu/61387884/log.gz
>
> 460s Processing triggers for dovecot-core (1:2.4.1+dfsg1-4) ...
> 461s Job for dovecot.service failed because the control process  
> exited with error code.
> 461s See "systemctl status dovecot.service" and "journalctl -xeu  
> dovecot.service" for details.
> 461s invoke-rc.d: initscript dovecot, action "restart" failed.
> 461s x dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server
> 461s      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service;  
> enabled; preset: enabled)
> 461s      Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2025-06-12  
> 12:23:10 UTC; 31ms ago
> 461s  Invocation: 05449d212a34423c9030609d952cd735
> 461s        Docs: man:dovecot(1)
> 461s              https://doc.dovecot.org/
> 461s     Process: 49496 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot -F (code=exited,  
> status=89)
> 461s    Main PID: 49496 (code=exited, status=89)
> 461s    Mem peak: 3.2M
> 461s         CPU: 30ms
> 461s
> 461s Jun 12 12:23:09 ci-163-54ad6d45 systemd[1]: Starting  
> dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server...
> 461s Jun 12 12:23:10 ci-163-54ad6d45 dovecot[49496]: doveconf:  
> Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/local.conf line 7:  
> mail_location: Unknown setting: mail_location
> 461s Jun 12 12:23:10 ci-163-54ad6d45 systemd[1]: dovecot.service:  
> Main process exited, code=exited, status=89/n/a
> 461s Jun 12 12:23:10 ci-163-54ad6d45 systemd[1]: dovecot.service:  
> Failed with result 'exit-code'.
> 461s Jun 12 12:23:10 ci-163-54ad6d45 systemd[1]: Failed to start  
> dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server.
> 461s dpkg: error processing package dovecot-core (--configure):
> 461s  installed dovecot-core package post-installation script  
> subprocess returned error exit status 1
> 461s Errors were encountered while processing:
> 461s  dovecot-core

This has been addressed now and is hopefully fixed via upload of  
debian-edu-config 2.12.901.

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/63523d4c516594ef94dde67df8266d5997deef0d

Mike
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