Debian Bug report logs - #245200
postfix: Postalias fails - Postfix fails to start after install

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jokke heikkila <jokke@kuva.fi>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: postfix: Postalias fails - Postfix fails to start after install

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:55:04 +0300

Package: postfix
Version: 2.0.19-1
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages postfix depends on:
ii  adduser           3.52         Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf           1.4.22       Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg              1.10.20      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6             2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.1          4.1.25-16    Berkeley v4.1 Database Libraries [
ii  libgdbm3          1.8.3-2      GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  netbase           4.16         Basic TCP/IP networking system

-- debconf information:
  postfix/master_upgrade_warning: 
  postfix/db_upgrade_warning: true
* postfix/mailname: magnusborg.fi
  postfix/dynamicmaps_upgrade_warning: 
  postfix/recipient_delim: +
* postfix/main_mailer_type: Internet Site
  postfix/transport_map_warning: 
* postfix/append_dot_mydomain: true
  postfix/relayhost: 
  postfix/procmail: true
  postfix/bad_recipient_delimiter: 
* postfix/chattr: false
* postfix/root_address: NONE
  postfix/rfc1035_violation: false
  postfix/mynetworks: 127.0.0.0/8
* postfix/destinations: tahko.magnusborg.fi, localhost.magnusborg.fi, ,
localhost
  postfix/not_configured: 
  postfix/mailbox_limit: 0


What went on is following:
1. net installed woody with postfix, was able to use it
2. dist upgraded to sid
3. tried to install postfix but install script fails with postalias giving
error
---
postalias: relocation error: /usr/lib/libpostfix-util.so.1: undefined symbol:
db_version_4001
---

4. tried with source --compile and during the process i got
---
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for /usr/local/bdb/lib/
libdb-4.1.so (libdb.so.4.1)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared
library libdb (soname 4.1, path /usr/local/bdb/lib/libdb-4.1.so, dependency 
 field Depends) 
---

and later when I did dpkg -i postfix_xyz.deb I got again
---
postalias: relocation error: /usr/lib/libpostfix-util.so.1: undefined symbol:
db_version_4001

Message #10 received at 245200@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>

To: jokke heikkila <jokke@kuva.fi>, 245200@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#245200: postfix: Postalias fails - Postfix fails to start after install

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:30:52 -0600

tags 245200 + unreproducible
severity 245200 normal
--

Postfix Depends: libdb4.1, which provides /usr/lib/libdb-4.1.so, which
has the symbol.  I'm not sure why your machine is trying to use 
/usr/local/bdb/lib/libdb-4.1.so, but it's clearly something that is
(a) not postfix's fault, and (b) specific to whatever has been done to
your system outside the packaging.

lamont

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:55:04PM +0300, jokke heikkila wrote:
> ii  libdb4.1          4.1.25-16    Berkeley v4.1 Database Libraries [
> ---
> postalias: relocation error: /usr/lib/libpostfix-util.so.1: undefined symbol:
> db_version_4001
> ---
> 4. tried with source --compile and during the process i got
> ---
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for /usr/local/bdb/lib/
> libdb-4.1.so (libdb.so.4.1)
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared
> library libdb (soname 4.1, path /usr/local/bdb/lib/libdb-4.1.so, dependency 
>  field Depends) 

% ldd /usr/lib/libpostfix-util.so.1 
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4002b000)
        libdb-4.1.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.1.so (0x4002e000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x400de000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x400f3000)
        libgdbm_compat.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3 (0x40105000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40108000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
        libgdbm.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3 (0x4023a000)

Message #19 received at 245200@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dan MacNeil <dan@thecsl.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <245200@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: upgrade postalias pukes on main.cf: virtual_alias_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_aliases.cf

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:15:47 -0500

Package: postfix
Version: 2.1.5-4
Followup-For: Bug #245200


Sorry for not having more detail, or including specific steps to reproduce, 
but commenting out:

virtual_alias_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_aliases.cf

...in /etc/postfx/main.cf

allowed the upgrade to happen. before it died with an error like that 
described bug #200245


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.18.20040416c
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages postfix depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.59         Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.4.30.11    Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.10.25      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.2                    4.2.52-17    Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libgdbm3                    1.8.3-2      GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  netbase                     4.19         Basic TCP/IP networking system

-- debconf information:
* postfix/master_upgrade_warning: true
  postfix/db_upgrade_warning: true
  postfix/mailname: /etc/mailname
* postfix/dynamicmaps_upgrade_warning: true
  postfix/recipient_delim: +
* postfix/main_mailer_type: No configuration
  postfix/transport_map_warning:
  postfix/append_dot_mydomain: false
  postfix/db2_db3_upgrade: true
  postfix/relayhost:
  postfix/procmail:
  postfix/bad_recipient_delimiter:
  postfix/chattr: false
  postfix/root_address: NONE
  postfix/rfc1035_violation: false
  postfix/mynetworks: 127.0.0.0/8
  postfix/destinations:
  postfix/nqmgr_upgrade_warning:
  postfix/not_configured:
  postfix/mailbox_limit: 0

Message #24 received at 245200@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dan MacNeil <dan@thecsl.org>

To: 245200@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#245200: Info received (was upgrade postalias pukes on main.cf: virtual_alias_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_aliases.cf)

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:20:43 -0500

I should also mention that it is reasonable to expect that

postalias won't work on an file with an ldap query

Message #29 received at 245200@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>

To: Dan MacNeil <dan@thecsl.org>, 245200@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#245200: Info received (was upgrade postalias pukes on main.cf: virtual_alias_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_aliases.cf)

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:55:48 -0700

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:20:43PM -0500, Dan MacNeil wrote:
> I should also mention that it is reasonable to expect that
> postalias won't work on an file with an ldap query

That's why newaliases uses alias_database, while the alias lookups use
alias_maps:

# The alias_maps parameter specifies the list of alias databases used
# by the local delivery agent. The default list is system dependent.

# The alias_database parameter specifies the alias database(s) that
# are built with "newaliases" or "sendmail -bi".  This is a separate
# configuration parameter, because alias_maps (see above) may specify
# tables that are not necessarily all under control by Postfix.

The only way I could see this as being related to the original report
would be if the ldap library on the machine was incorrectly built, and
_it_ was the one missing the symbol.

lamont

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