Skip Da Shu
July 22nd, 2009, 04:34 AM
I upgraded my v8.10 desktop today. When I came back to it there was some message about postfix... I hit NEXT and went back to my scratch install of Jaunty on another machine. When I came back a bit later it was done and after a reboot all seemed good. Then I saw the little red x on the network-manager-gnome applet in the top panel was still around. I had problems with v8.10 when it first came out with my then static IP. I know back then I updated the /etc/network/interfaces file but can't recall if I modified anything else or not.
In an attempt to get that applet to work again... I tried:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure network-manger-gnome
and
sudo dpkg-reconfigure network-manager
2nd one told me my interfaces file was invalid.
I deleted the interefaces file and tried it again... got some error about not having an interfaces file.
I put it back and restarted networking (sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart) and rx'd the following:
:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... postconf: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 3247
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:1f:d0:d4:80:37
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:1f:d0:d4:80:37
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.218.18 port 67
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:1f:d0:d4:80:37
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:1f:d0:d4:80:37
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.218.17 from 192.168.218.18
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.218.17 on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.218.17 from 192.168.218.18
bound to 192.168.218.17 -- renewal in 32941 seconds.
postconf: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory
* Stopping NTP server ntpd
...done.
[ OK ]
:~$ * Starting NTP server ntpd
...done.
As you can see my DHCP server is assigning a (and the proper) ip address to this machine but I don't know what this "postconf" error is or how to make it go away.
My interfaces file is nothing but:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
What do I need to run to create a valid /etc/postfix/main.cf?
In an attempt to get that applet to work again... I tried:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure network-manger-gnome
and
sudo dpkg-reconfigure network-manager
2nd one told me my interfaces file was invalid.
I deleted the interefaces file and tried it again... got some error about not having an interfaces file.
I put it back and restarted networking (sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart) and rx'd the following:
:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... postconf: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 3247
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:1f:d0:d4:80:37
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:1f:d0:d4:80:37
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.218.18 port 67
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:1f:d0:d4:80:37
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:1f:d0:d4:80:37
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.218.17 from 192.168.218.18
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.218.17 on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.218.17 from 192.168.218.18
bound to 192.168.218.17 -- renewal in 32941 seconds.
postconf: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory
* Stopping NTP server ntpd
...done.
[ OK ]
:~$ * Starting NTP server ntpd
...done.
As you can see my DHCP server is assigning a (and the proper) ip address to this machine but I don't know what this "postconf" error is or how to make it go away.
My interfaces file is nothing but:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
What do I need to run to create a valid /etc/postfix/main.cf?