Package: courier-authdaemon Version: 0.68.0-4+b1 Severity: critical stop The Courier authdaemon package is failing to configure during install. Similar issue happened on the -3 package but I managed to get that to install with manually stopping all courier processes before upgrading. That workaround no longer has any effect.
aptitude upgrade The following partially installed packages will be configured: courier-authdaemon courier-imap courier-pop No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Setting up courier-pop (0.78.0-2+b1) ... A dependency job for courier-pop.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details. ... Setting up courier-imap (4.18.1+0.78.0-2+b1) ... A dependency job for courier-imap.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-imap, action "start" failed. * courier-imap.service - Courier IMAP Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/courier-imap.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2018-02-02 20:12:20 NZDT; 1 weeks 0 days ago Main PID: 705 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Feb 09 21:44:44 rio systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Courier IMAP Daemon. Feb 09 21:44:44 rio systemd[1]: courier-imap.service: Job courier-imap.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. Feb 09 21:45:03 rio systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Courier IMAP Daemon. Feb 09 21:45:03 rio systemd[1]: courier-imap.service: Job courier-imap.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. Feb 09 21:45:09 rio systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Courier IMAP Daemon. Feb 09 21:45:09 rio systemd[1]: courier-imap.service: Job courier-imap.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. Feb 09 21:45:39 rio systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Courier IMAP Daemon. Feb 09 21:45:39 rio systemd[1]: courier-imap.service: Job courier-imap.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable. dpkg: error processing package courier-imap (--configure): installed courier-imap package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Setting up courier-authdaemon (0.68.0-4+b1) ... Job for courier-authdaemon.service failed because the service did not take the steps required by its unit configuration. See "systemctl status courier-authdaemon.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-authdaemon, action "start" failed. * courier-authdaemon.service - Courier Authentification Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/courier-authdaemon.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: protocol) since Fri 2018-02-09 21:45:39 NZDT; 8ms ago Process: 4623 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/authdaemond start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 667 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Feb 09 21:45:39 rio systemd[1]: Starting Courier Authentification Daemon... Feb 09 21:45:39 rio systemd[1]: courier-authdaemon.service: Can't open PID file /run/courier/authdaemon/pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory Feb 09 21:45:39 rio systemd[1]: courier-authdaemon.service: Failed with result 'protocol'. Feb 09 21:45:39 rio systemd[1]: Failed to start Courier Authentification Daemon. dpkg: error processing package courier-authdaemon (--configure): installed courier-authdaemon package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: courier-pop courier-imap courier-authdaemon E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Setting up courier-pop (0.78.0-2+b1) ... A dependency job for courier-pop.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details. ... Setting up courier-authdaemon (0.68.0-4+b1) ... Job for courier-authdaemon.service failed because the service did not take the steps required by its unit configuration. See "systemctl status courier-authdaemon.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-authdaemon, action "start" failed. * courier-authdaemon.service - Courier Authentification Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/courier-authdaemon.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: protocol) since Fri 2018-02-09 21:45:41 NZDT; 7ms ago Process: 4821 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/authdaemond start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 667 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Feb 09 21:45:41 rio systemd[1]: Starting Courier Authentification Daemon... Feb 09 21:45:41 rio systemd[1]: courier-authdaemon.service: Can't open PID file /run/courier/authdaemon/pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory Feb 09 21:45:41 rio systemd[1]: courier-authdaemon.service: Failed with result 'protocol'. Feb 09 21:45:41 rio systemd[1]: Failed to start Courier Authentification Daemon. dpkg: error processing package courier-authdaemon (--configure): installed courier-authdaemon package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: courier-pop courier-imap courier-authdaemon