Ubuntu
exim package

clamav-base installation complains about missing Debian-exim userid

Bug #261093 reported by Herbert Thielen
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: clamav-base

I started the following apt-get on kubuntu-8.04.1 to install clamav. During configuration of clamav-base, some exim command was started, but obviously exim wasn't configured yet. Maybe some dependency statement needs to be adapted?

# apt-get install clamav spamassassin clamav-docs arj unzoo lha mailx spamc re2c exim4-doc-html exim4-doc-info eximon4 libsys-syslog-perl
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut
Reading state information... Fertig
Die folgenden zusätzlichen Pakete werden installiert:
  clamav-base clamav-freshclam exim4 exim4-base exim4-config
  exim4-daemon-light libarchive-tar-perl libclamav3 libcompress-raw-zlib-perl
  libcompress-zlib-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl liberror-perl
  libio-compress-base-perl libio-compress-zlib-perl libio-zlib-perl
  liblockfile1 libmail-spf-perl libnet-dns-perl libnet-ip-perl
  libnetaddr-ip-perl libsocket6-perl libsys-hostname-long-perl libversion-perl
  sharutils
Vorgeschlagene Pakete:
  libmail-spf-query-perl libio-string-perl libdbi-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl
  libmail-dkim-perl libnet-ident-perl pyzor razor
Die folgenden NEUEN Pakete werden installiert:
  arj clamav clamav-base clamav-docs clamav-freshclam exim4 exim4-base
  exim4-config exim4-daemon-light exim4-doc-html exim4-doc-info eximon4 lha
  libarchive-tar-perl libclamav3 libcompress-raw-zlib-perl
  libcompress-zlib-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl liberror-perl
  libio-compress-base-perl libio-compress-zlib-perl libio-zlib-perl
  liblockfile1 libmail-spf-perl libnet-dns-perl libnet-ip-perl
  libnetaddr-ip-perl libsocket6-perl libsys-hostname-long-perl
  libsys-syslog-perl libversion-perl mailx re2c sharutils spamassassin spamc
  unzoo
0 aktualisiert, 38 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.
[...]
Richte arj ein (3.10.22-4) ...
Richte clamav-base ein (0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2) ...
Lege Systembenutzer »clamav« (UID 111) an ...
Lege neue Gruppe »clamav« (GID 120) an ...
Lege neuen Benutzer »clamav« (UID 111) mit Gruppe »clamav« an ...
Erstelle Home-Verzeichnis »/var/lib/clamav« nicht.
exim: failed to find uid for user name "Debian-exim"

Richte libclamav3 ein (0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2) ...

Richte clamav-freshclam ein (0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2) ...
 * Starting ClamAV virus database updater freshclam [ OK ]

Richte clamav ein (0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2) ...
Richte sharutils ein (1:4.6.3-1build1) ...

Richte clamav-docs ein (0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2) ...
Richte exim4-config ein (4.69-2) ...
Adding system-user for exim (v4)

Richte exim4-base ein (4.69-2) ...

Richte exim4-daemon-light ein (4.69-2) ...
 * Starting MTA [ OK ]

Richte exim4 ein (4.69-2) ...

Richte exim4-doc-html ein (4.67-1) ...

Richte exim4-doc-info ein (4.67-1) ...

Richte eximon4 ein (4.69-2) ...

[...]

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

Not a clamav bug.

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Herbert Thielen (thielen) wrote :

clamav-base.postinst executes newaliases if available. As exim was unpacked already at this time, newaliases was found and executed. But exim was not yet configured, therefore user Debian-exim wasn't yet in /etc/passwd, and that's what newaliases complains about.

I'm not sure which packet could handle this correctly. Despite of the error message "exim: failed to find uid ...", there's probably no harm here - maybe it could be a valid solution to just redirect newaliases' error message to /dev/null in clamav-base.postinst?

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