Scratch my supposed fix.; the service started up fine after the reboot, but failed after any subsequent restarts. I'm currently stuck running it in debug as well. Box was installed as 14.04 x64 from scratch; not a 12.04 upgrade.
$ dpkg-query --show amavisd-new amavisd-new 1:2.7.1-2ubuntu3 uname is 3.13.0-43-generic mail logs are similar: Jan 11 22:24:02 bamboo amavis[5657]: logging initialized, log level 5, syslog: amavis.mail Jan 11 22:24:02 bamboo amavis[5657]: starting. /usr/sbin/amavisd-new at bamboo.slabnet.com amavisd-new-2.7.1 (20120429), Unicode aware, LANG="en_US.UTF-8" Jan 11 22:24:02 bamboo amavis[5657]: perl=5.018002, user=, EUID: 128 (128); group=, EGID: 138 138 (138 138) Jan 11 22:24:02 bamboo amavis[5657]: INFO: no optional modules: Unix::Getrusage Jan 11 22:24:02 bamboo amavis[5657]: SpamControl: attempting to load scanner SpamAssassin, module Amavis::SpamControl::SpamAssassin Jan 11 22:24:02 bamboo amavis[5657]: SpamControl: scanner SpamAssassin, module Amavis::SpamControl::SpamAssassin Jan 11 22:24:02 bamboo amavis[5657]: INFO: SA version: 3.4.0, 3.004000, no optional modules: Encode::Detect IP::Country::Fast auto::NetAddr::IP::full6 auto::NetAddr::IP: :Util::inet_n2dx auto::NetAddr::IP::Util::inet_n2ad auto::NetAddr::IP::Util::inet_any2n auto::NetAddr::IP::Util::ipv6_aton Jan 11 22:24:02 bamboo amavis[5657]: SpamControl: init_pre_chroot on SpamAssassin done Jan 11 22:24:02 bamboo amavis[5657]: bind to /var/lib/amavis/amavisd.sock|unix, 127.0.0.1:10024/tcp ...then nothing, though amavisd-new runs fine in debug in the foreground as per original poster's report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316293 Title: unable to start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amavisd-new/+bug/1316293/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
