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lesterness
April 11th, 2010, 07:12 AM
I have a broken package and can't seem to fix it. Now, nothing can be downloaded from synaptic. I get the following error message:

Processing triggers for software-center ...
Setting up courier-mta (0.61.2-lubuntu3) ...
* Starting Courier mail server...
* Starting Courier mail server...
invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-mta, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing courier-mta (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
courier-mta
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


How do I fix this?

Thanks.

Lesterness
lesterness
April 12th, 2010, 02:01 AM
I have a broken package and can't seem to fix it. Now, nothing can be downloaded from synaptic. I get the following error message:

Processing triggers for software-center ...
Setting up courier-mta (0.61.2-lubuntu3) ...
* Starting Courier mail server...
* Starting Courier mail server...
invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-mta, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing courier-mta (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
courier-mta
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

How do I fix this?

Thanks.

Lesterness

Problem solved! I looked up the error message "dpkg: error processing courier-mta (--configure):" in Ubuntu's documentation on line. Community documentation suggested I re-install Postfix, with
SUDO APTITUDE INSTALL POSTFIX, and accept the defaults. It works! I didn't re-configure.