On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Nigel Horne wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
>
>> That's just a warning; I'll make a fix for it along with fixing the
>> documentation for it.
>
> It's more than a warning, it prevents "apt-get upgrade" from completing
> successfully:

No, it's just a warning that happens to coincide with the actual
error.

> sh-3.2# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> Setting up spamass-milter (0.3.1-8) ...
> Starting Sendmail milter plugin for SpamAssassin: WARNING:  
> spamass-milter will run as user spamass-milter but . is not owned by  
> spamass-milter
> Either delete this directory or chown it appropriately. Startup attempts  
> may fail.
> /usr/sbin/spamass-milter already running.
  ^^-- the actual error.

Stop spamass-milter, and then it will work.


Don Armstrong

-- 
Q: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the
Experience of the Past Million Years?
A: Nothing.
 -- Bokonon _The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon_ (Vonnegut _Cats Cradle_)

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