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

Paul Gevers <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:00:50 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.skolelinux.devel
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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

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