Debian Bug report logs - #759896
postfix: Package installation fails during setup when running newaliases

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

From: votdev <votdev@gmx.de>

To: lamont@debian.org, submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: postfix: Package installation fails during setup when running newaliases

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 22:52:07 +0200

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Package: postfix
Version: 2.9.6-2
Severity: important

While building a Wheezy armhf image with live-build which installs postfix as an additional package the configuration process fails with the message:

newaliases: fatal: inet_addr_local[getifaddrs]: getifaddrs: Address family not supported by protocol

The relevant information from build.log:

Setting up postfix (2.9.6-2) ...
Adding group `postfix' (GID 106) ...
Done.
Adding system user `postfix' (UID 102) ...
Adding new user `postfix' (UID 102) with group `postfix' ...
Not creating home directory `/var/spool/postfix'.
Creating /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
Adding tcp map entry to /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
Adding sqlite map entry to /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
Adding group `postdrop' (GID 107) ...
Done.
setting myhostname: localhost.localdomain
setting alias maps
setting alias database
changing /etc/mailname to localhost.localdomain
setting myorigin
setting destinations: localhost.localdomain, localhost.localhost.localdomain, , localhost
setting relayhost: 
setting mynetworks: 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
setting mailbox_size_limit: 0
setting recipient_delimiter: +
setting inet_interfaces: all
/etc/aliases does not exist, creating it.
WARNING: /etc/aliases exists, but does not have a root alias.

Postfix is now set up with a default configuration.  If you need to make 
changes, edit
/etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed.  To view Postfix configuration
values, see postconf(1).

After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'.

Running newaliases
newaliases: fatal: inet_addr_local[getifaddrs]: getifaddrs: Address family not supported by protocol
dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 75

Regards
Volker

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Message #10 received at 759896@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>

To: 759896@bugs.debian.org

Subject: postfix: newaliases fails under qemu-user-static chroot

Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 10:53:48 +0100

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is what the original report was about, but this is
a problem I have in Jessie, and seems to be resolved in Stretch.

I create an armhf chroot using qemu-debootstrap. Installing postfix in
it fails with the same error message.

There's an existing bug report in Ubuntu about it with more details:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postfix/+bug/1531299

It seems qemu fails to implement a certain kernel detail needed for
netlink. I didn't dig deep enough down there to see why it was needed
for newaliases.

Reproduced in Jessie's postfix (2.11.3-1). Not reproduced with the
version in Stretch (3.1.3-2). Both using the version of qemu in Stretch
(qemu-user-static 1:2.7+dfsg-3).

To reproduce:

0. Pre-requirements:

  apt install qemu-user-static deboostrap

1. create a new chroot:

  debootstrap --arch=armhf $DISTRO root-dir

2. install postfix in it:

  # for those without systemd: configure schroot. Or maybe even a plain
  # chroot would do:
  systemd-nspawn -D root-dir -- apt install postfix

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Message #15 received at 759896@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>

To: 759896@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: postfix: newaliases fails under qemu-user-static chroot

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 01:06:31 -0500

On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 10:53:48 +0100 Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> wrote:
...
> It seems qemu fails to implement a certain kernel detail needed for
> netlink. I didn't dig deep enough down there to see why it was needed
> for newaliases.
...

Then that's not a postfix bug.

Scott K

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