reopen 815047 thanks The latest uploaded does not seem to fix the problem:
dpkg -l postfix Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-===================================== ii postfix 3.0.4-1 amd64 High-performance mail transport agent systemctl start postfix.service; systemctl status postfix.service ● postfix.service - LSB: Postfix Mail Transport Agent Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/postfix; bad; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/postfix.service.d └─50-postfix-$mail-transport-agent.conf Active: active (exited) since Mi 2016-02-24 12:44:34 CET; 1min 39s ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 24148 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/postfix stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 24552 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/postfix start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Feb 24 12:44:33 feivel systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Postfix Mail Transport Agent... Feb 24 12:44:33 feivel postmulti[24558]: fatal: instance /etc/postfix, shlib_directory=/usr/lib/postfix conflicts with instance /etc/postfix, daemon_directory=/usr/lib/postfix Feb 24 12:44:34 feivel postfix[24552]: Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfix. Feb 24 12:44:34 feivel systemd[1]: Started LSB: Postfix Mail Transport Agent. Feb 24 12:45:37 feivel systemd[1]: Started LSB: Postfix Mail Transport Agent. Feb 24 12:45:56 feivel systemd[1]: Started LSB: Postfix Mail Transport Agent. Feb 24 12:46:13 feivel systemd[1]: Started LSB: Postfix Mail Transport Agent. It does claim success despite the fatal message. Needless to say the system is down afterwards. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL