dovecot install failed

[Vladimir Scherbaev]

vladimir@volgedu:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up dovecot-common (1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5) ...
Creating generic self-signed certificate: /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
(replace with hand-crafted or authorized one if needed).
hostname: Name or service not known
dpkg: error processing dovecot-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dovecot-pop3d:
 dovecot-pop3d depends on dovecot-common (= 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5); however:
  Package dovecot-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing dovecot-pop3d (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                Errors were encountered while processing:
 dovecot-common
 dovecot-pop3d
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04
dovecot-common:
  Installed: 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5
  Candidate: 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5 0
        500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.4 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
     1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6 0
        500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
dovecot-pop3d:
  Installed: 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5
  Candidate: 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5 0
        500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.4 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
     1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6 0
        500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: dovecot-pop3d 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-28.55-server 2.6.32.27+drm33.12
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 6 17:44:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427)
SourcePackage: dovecot

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Can you please post the output to the command "hostname"?

[Vladimir Scherbaev (zemik)]

Yes.
volgedu.ru

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