Ubuntu: upgrade to Dapper crashed in the middle

[David Bandel]

On 6/3/06, Michael Hipp <michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> > From: "Man-wai CHANG" <mwchang at i-cable.com>
> > > A few minutes worth of research will save a lot of grief.
> >
> > The official how-to forgot to mention the need to comment out
> > non-ubuntu repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list. :P
>
> Yes. Probably should have been in there. Tho I generally consider any unofficial repositories for any distro to be a break-my-box exercise.
>
> > My 2nd dist-upgrade attempt worked. But I still have a few
> > problems in the init process. One is sendmail.
>
> Well, that's suitable punishment for using sendmail. Off with his head!  Postfix, my man, postfix.
>

Nothing wrong with sendmail.  I've been using/administering it for
over 20 years now.  When postfix matures, it will have as many
problems as sendmail.  Meanwhile, the standard remains sendmail.

I tried postfix once, but couldn't get it to do what I needed it to.
So after 6 hours trying, I gave up and had sendmail running inside 20
minutes.

Postfix still has a long way to do from what I see.

As for Man-wai's problem, check /var/log/mail.log (or wherever syslog
is sending mail messages) and you should be able to fix it easily.
It's not starting for a reason, and that reason will be logged.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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