Improve feedback of postfix systemd unit start failure
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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postfix (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The output in `journalctl -u postfix` is
Aug 31 17:09:24 richtercloud systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Postfix Mail Transport Agent...
-- Subject: Unit postfix.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://
--
-- Unit postfix.service has begun starting up.
Aug 31 17:09:24 richtercloud postfix[15171]: * Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix
Aug 31 17:09:25 richtercloud postfix[15171]: ...fail!
Aug 31 17:09:25 richtercloud systemd[1]: postfix.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Aug 31 17:09:25 richtercloud systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Postfix Mail Transport Agent.
-- Subject: Unit postfix.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://
--
-- Unit postfix.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Aug 31 17:09:25 richtercloud systemd[1]: Unit postfix.service entered failed state.
Aug 31 17:09:25 richtercloud systemd[1]: postfix.service failed.
which doesn't contain any useful information about the reason for the failure.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: postfix 2.11.3-1ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 4.1.3-040103-
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 31 14:41:32 2015
EtcMailname: richtercloud.de
Hostname: richtercloud
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-20 (132 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.2)
PostconfMydomain: localdomain
PostconfMyhostname: richtercloud.de
PostconfMyorigin: /etc/mailname
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ResolvConf:
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 192.168.178.1
nameserver 127.0.0.1
SourcePackage: postfix
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-24 (128 days ago)
mtime.conffile.
mtime.conffile.
mtime.conffile.
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Please could you explain what you're expecting instead here? Are the postfix log files not sufficient?