Package: postfix
Version: 3.5.0-2
Severity: normal
This morning one of my test systems automaticallt installed 3.5.0-2 and then
postfix didn't run. The command "/etc/init.d/postfix restart" resulted in
postfix not running and nothing being logged.
Apr 19 06:56:12 sevm postfix/master[913]: terminating on signal 15
The last log entry in mail.log was the above, after that restarting postfix
did nothing.
root@sevm:~# systemctl status system-postfix.slice
● system-postfix.slice
Loaded: loaded
Active: active since Thu 2020-04-16 05:36:41 AEST; 3 days ago
Tasks: 0
Memory: 600.0K
CGroup: /system.slice/system-postfix.slice
Apr 16 05:46:56 sevm postfix/qmgr[915]: 0096A21A06B: removed
Apr 17 07:02:03 sevm postfix/pickup[54977]: 4B55D21B95F: uid=106 from=<mon>
Apr 17 07:02:03 sevm postfix/cleanup[61425]: 4B55D21B95F: message-id=<202004162>
Apr 17 07:02:04 sevm postfix/qmgr[915]: 4B55D21B95F:
from=<[email protected]>
Apr 17 07:02:06 sevm postfix/smtp[61429]: 4B55D21B95F: to=<russell+nagios@coker>
Apr 17 07:02:06 sevm postfix/qmgr[915]: 4B55D21B95F: removed
Apr 19 06:56:11 sevm postfix[218529]: Postfix is running with backwards-compati>
Apr 19 06:56:11 sevm postfix[218529]: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_>
Apr 19 06:56:11 sevm postfix[218529]: To disable backwards compatibility use "p>
Apr 19 06:56:12 sevm postfix/master[913]: terminating on signal 15
Above is the status of the system-postfix.slice at the time of the problem, it
said 0 tasks running. I restarted the slice and then got the below result.
I don't know if the upgrade process should have restarted the slice. The
expected result is that the sysadmin runs "/etc/init.d/postfix restart" and it
just works.
root@sevm:~# systemctl restart system-postfix.slice
root@sevm:~# systemctl status system-postfix.slice
● system-postfix.slice
Loaded: loaded
Active: active since Sun 2020-04-19 10:15:03 AEST; 3s ago
Tasks: 0
Memory: 0B
CGroup: /system.slice/system-postfix.slice
Apr 19 10:15:03 sevm systemd[1]: Removed slice system-postfix.slice.
Apr 19 10:15:03 sevm systemd[1]: Stopping system-postfix.slice.
Apr 19 10:15:03 sevm systemd[1]: Created slice system-postfix.slice.
root@sevm:~# /etc/init.d/postfix restart
Restarting postfix (via systemctl): postfix.service.
root@sevm:~# systemctl status system-postfix.slice
● system-postfix.slice
Loaded: loaded
Active: active since Sun 2020-04-19 10:15:03 AEST; 16s ago
Tasks: 6
Memory: 6.6M
CGroup: /system.slice/system-postfix.slice
└─[email protected]
├─230964 /usr/lib/postfix/sbin/master -w
├─230965 pickup -l -t unix -u -c
├─230966 qmgr -l -t unix -u
├─230968 cleanup -z -t unix -u -c
├─230969 trivial-rewrite -n rewrite -t unix -u -c
└─230974 smtp -t unix -u -c
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Enforcing - Policy name: default
Versions of packages postfix depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii cpio 2.13+dfsg-2
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.73
ii dpkg 1.19.7
ii e2fsprogs 1.45.6-1
ii libc6 2.30-4
ii libdb5.3 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.6
ii libicu63 63.2-3
ii libsasl2-2 2.1.27+dfsg-2
ii libssl1.1 1.1.1f-1
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii netbase 6.1
ii ssl-cert 1.0.39
Versions of packages postfix recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20190110
ii python3 3.8.2-3
Versions of packages postfix suggests:
ii bsd-mailx [mail-reader] 8.1.2-0.20180807cvs-1+b1
ii libsasl2-modules 2.1.27+dfsg-2
ii mutt [mail-reader] 1.13.2-1
pn postfix-cdb <none>
pn postfix-doc <none>
pn postfix-ldap <none>
pn postfix-lmdb <none>
pn postfix-mysql <none>
pn postfix-pcre <none>
pn postfix-pgsql <none>
ii postfix-sqlite 3.5.0-2
ii procmail 3.22-26
pn resolvconf <none>
pn ufw <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/rsyslog.d/postfix.conf changed:
-- debconf information:
postfix/retry_upgrade_warning:
postfix/compat_conversion_warning: true
postfix/destinations: sevm.coker.com.au, localhost.coker.com.au, localhost
postfix/sqlite_warning:
postfix/mynetworks: 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
postfix/bad_recipient_delimiter:
postfix/root_address:
postfix/relayhost:
postfix/mydomain_warning:
postfix/lmtp_retired_warning: true
postfix/kernel_version_warning:
postfix/protocols: all
postfix/main_cf_conversion_warning: true
postfix/not_configured:
* postfix/mailname: sexen.coker.com.au
postfix/procmail: true
postfix/recipient_delim: +
postfix/relay_restrictions_warning:
postfix/chattr: false
* postfix/main_mailer_type: Local only
postfix/newaliases: false
postfix/dynamicmaps_conversion_warning:
postfix/mailbox_limit: 0
postfix/tlsmgr_upgrade_warning:
postfix/rfc1035_violation: false