On 2014-06-03, Mike McClain <mike.j...@nethere.com> wrote: > Howdy, > I hadn't rebooted since dist-upgrade last January then something > caused a lockup, no video, no keyboard such that I did a hard power off. > That was 2 days ago and since I've rebooted exim4 can't connect to > 127.0.0.1:25 hence fetchmail can't transfer inbound mail. > I've not found any solution on Google that works for me. Exim and > fetchmail has worked for me for years, since Potato I believe, Debian 2 > something. > When I run '/etc/init.d/exim4 restart' exim4 writes to > /var/log/exim4/paniclog, > socket bind() to port 25 for address ::1 failed: Cannot assign > requested address: waiting 30s before trying again (9 more tries) > and finally: daemon abandoned
You do have a loopback interface in /etc/network/interfaces? # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback One time, I don't remember how or why it happened, I lost mine somehow (the loopback interface) and it caused all sorts of delays and problems. I see you "restarted" exim4. I think I read somewhere restarting was frowned upon (I'm not sure where I read that). I think you're supposed to stop it (service exim4 stop), then start it again (service exim4 start). Maybe between stop and start check to make sure it really died a thorough death (no stale zombies, or whatever they're called)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnlou5lo.2fk.cu...@einstein.electron.org
