Package: postfix Version: 2.8.2-1+b1 Severity: normal Apparently a recent glibc upgrade in Debian testing (to libc6-2.13) causes postfix to fail (when sending email) with the following error:
postdrop: fatal: getrlimit: Operation not permitted sendmail: warning: command "/usr/sbin/postdrop -r" exited with status 1 sendmail: fatal: f...@bar.ca(2367): unable to execute /usr/sbin/postdrop -r: Success After downgrading with "aptitude install libc6/stable" and restarting postfix, things are back to normal. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.36.3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages postfix depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.39 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.16.0.3 Debian package management system ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdb5.1 5.1.25-1 Berkeley v5.1 Database Libraries [ ii libsasl2-2 2.1.23.dfsg1-8 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.0d-2 SSL shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii netbase 4.45 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii ssl-cert 1.0.28 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL Versions of packages postfix recommends: ii python 2.6.6-14 interactive high-level object-orie Versions of packages postfix suggests: pn dovecot-common <none> (no description available) ii emacs [mail-reader] 23.3+1-1 The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage) ii emacs19 [mail-reader] 19.34-19 The GNU Emacs editor. ii emacs20 [mail-reader] 20.7-13.3 The GNU Emacs editor. ii emacs21 [mail-reader] 21.4a+1-5.7 The GNU Emacs editor ii emacs22 [mail-reader] 22.3+1-1.2+b1 The GNU Emacs editor ii emacs23 [mail-reader] 23.3+1-1 The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ us ii evolution [mail-reader] 2.32.2-2 groupware suite with mail client a ii libsasl2-modules 2.1.23.dfsg1-8 Cyrus SASL - pluggable authenticat ii nmh [mail-reader] 1.3-1 A set of electronic mail handling pn postfix-cdb <none> (no description available) pn postfix-ldap <none> (no description available) pn postfix-mysql <none> (no description available) pn postfix-pcre <none> (no description available) pn postfix-pgsql <none> (no description available) pn procmail <none> (no description available) ii resolvconf 1.48 name server information handler pn sasl2-bin <none> (no description available) pn ufw <none> (no description available) ii xemacs21-mule [mail-reade 21.4.22-3.1 highly customizable text editor -- -- debconf information: * postfix/mailname: ceviche.home postfix/tlsmgr_upgrade_warning: postfix/retry_upgrade_warning: postfix/relayhost: postfix/procmail: false postfix/bad_recipient_delimiter: postfix/rfc1035_violation: false * postfix/mynetworks: 127.0.0.0/8 * postfix/protocols: all postfix/master_upgrade_warning: postfix/db_upgrade_warning: true postfix/dynamicmaps_upgrade_warning: * postfix/recipient_delim: + * postfix/main_mailer_type: Internet Site postfix/transport_map_warning: postfix/kernel_version_warning: * postfix/chattr: true * postfix/root_address: postfix/mydomain_warning: * postfix/destinations: $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost postfix/nqmgr_upgrade_warning: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org