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

Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:22:25 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.skolelinux.devel
Organization	DAS-NETZWERKTEAM
Message-ID	<20250711062225.Horde.-rF8t94JjaJvzhqRgkNEjHG__49019.0531754465$1752215128$gmane$org@mail.das-netzwerkteam.de>
Control: reassign -1 src:debian-edu-config
Control: close -1
Control: fixed -1 2.12.901

On  Fr 13 Jun 2025 10:08:40 CEST, Mike Gabriel wrote:

> 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

Reassigning to src:debian-edu-config and closing. Resolved via d-e-c 2.12.901.

Mike


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