package amavisd doesn't install

[Omkar Pilankar]

I wanted to install amavisd for Ubuntu 16.04 and for that I used Synaptic Package Manager and when it was about to install, an error message got displayed with some red marks.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: amavisd-new 1:2.10.1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-41.46~16.04.1-generic 4.13.16
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-41-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.17
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 21 21:39:18 2018
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-08 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20180228)
PackageArchitecture: all
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.4
 apt 1.2.26
SourcePackage: amavisd-new
Title: package amavisd-new 1:2.10.1-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Thanks for filing a bug in Ubuntu.

This is the error log:
Job for amavis.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status amavis.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript amavis, action "start" failed.
● amavis.service - LSB: Starts amavisd-new mailfilter
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/amavis; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2018-05-21 21:39:18 IST; 39ms ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 11343 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/amavis start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

May 21 21:39:18 omkar6901 amavis[11343]: The value of variable $myhostname...n
May 21 21:39:18 omkar6901 amavis[11343]: a fully qualified domain name; pe....
May 21 21:39:18 omkar6901 amavis[11343]: You must explicitly assign a FQDN...e
May 21 21:39:18 omkar6901 amavis[11343]: in /etc/amavis/conf.d/05-node_id,...s
May 21 21:39:18 omkar6901 amavis[11343]: network name!
May 21 21:39:18 omkar6901 amavis[11343]: (failed).

The file /etc/amavis/conf.d/05-node_id wants to set a variable to the output of the "hostname --fqdn" command, and it looks like in your case that command is not returning a fully qualified name.

You should inspect your network configuration and hostname setting to find out why you are not getting a fully qualified name back. I suggest to look in /etc/hosts.

As this is a local configuration problem, I'll mark this bug as "incomplete". If new information suggests that this is instead a software defect, then please clarify with a comment and set the bug back to the "new" state.

Thanks

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for amavisd-new (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]