Postfix error

[Michael Hipp]

Dominic Lepiane wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 September 2006 10:21, Michael Hipp wrote:
>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>>> I'm getting this every time I try to start postfix:
>>>>
>>>> Sep 26 22:34:00 dorcas postfix/master[3912]: fatal: bind <myipaddr> port
>>>> 25: Address already in use
>>> Stale lock file?  Did you try stracing the process to see how/where its
>>> deciding that the port is in use?
>> Thanks, hadn't thought of that.
>>
>> My email provider upgraded me during the night and my webmail became
>> unusable so this turned into an emergency. So I seem to have fixed it by
>> removing postfix with apt-get, deleting the /etc/postfix/main.cf and
>> master.cf files and reinstalling. It seems to be working now.
> 
> What versions of Postfix were involved before/after the update?  I've had a 
> problem with the upgrade from 2.2-n to 2.3-n (in Debian Sarge) which I 
> haven't had a chance to troubleshoot any further then figuring out there was 
> a config file problem...

This is a new install of Ubuntu Dapper; it appears to be postfix 2.2.10.

I have a theory that it was somehow caused by the fact that I changed the 
hostname of this machine after it had been installed. And the change may not 
have filtered to all the sundry places at the right time. This may have 
confused Postfix.

Michael