MailScanner won't start due to variable $FIELD_NAME

[Jasey]

Binary package hint: mailscanner

UBUNTU 8.04 HARDY - ALPHA 5 (amd64)
AMD64

MailScanner version 4.58.9-2-ubuntu1 - from the Hardy Alpha 5 Repo's won't start due to the following error:

Variable "$FIELD_NAME" is not imported at /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 6368.
Variable "$FIELD_NAME" is not imported at /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 6371.
Global symbol "$FIELD_NAME" requires explicit package name at /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 6368.
Global symbol "$FIELD_NAME" requires explicit package name at /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 6371.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 79.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 79.

I managed to fix this issue by adding:

6356: our $FIELD_NAME = '[^\x00-\x1f\x7f-\xff :]+:';

line 6355 reads: package Mail::Header;

This was taken from the MailScanner 4.66.5-3 tarball from the MailScanner website.

This works as a quick-fix for me - but has messed up my apt. Recommend upgrading repo's to include 4.66.5-3.

Jason

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

confirming

[Jasey (jason-rivers)]

Update:

after fixing the package manager with some help (thanks savvas) I managed to remove mailscanner 4.58.9-2 and then installed mailscanner_4.66.5-1_all.deb from the debian unstable. this works without any issues.

can we upgrade mailscanner in the ubuntu repo's to match that of Debians?

Jason.

[madagascar (ai-bcn)]

Hi Savvas,

Could you please help solving either

a) the reinstallation of MailScanner so that i can then remove it safely or
b.) force overwrite the MailScanner installation with the newer debian file

So far, i had the same problem and am now stuck (apologies for the german text):

1. Attempt: dpkg -i mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1_all.deb

11325@mail:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1_all.deb
dpkg: Status-Datenbank-Bereich ist von einem anderen Prozess gesperrt
11325@mail:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1_all.deb
(Lese Datenbank ... 236330 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereiten zum Ersetzen von mailscanner 4.58.9-2ubuntu1 (durch mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
invoke-rc.d: initscript mailscanner, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: Warnung - altes pre-removal-Skript wurde mit Fehler-Status 1 beendet
dpkg - probiere stattdessen Skript aus dem neuen Paket ...
No MailScanner found running; none killed.
invoke-rc.d: initscript mailscanner, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1_all.deb (--install):
 Unterprozess neues pre-removal-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
invoke-rc.d: initscript mailscanner, action "start" failed.
dpkg: Fehler beim Aufräumen:
 Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1_all.deb

2. Attempt to apt-get install mailscanner:

11325@mail:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1_all.deb
(Lese Datenbank ... 236330 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereiten zum Ersetzen von mailscanner 4.58.9-2ubuntu1 (durch mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
invoke-rc.d: initscript mailscanner, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: Warnung - altes pre-removal-Skript wurde mit Fehler-Status 1 beendet
dpkg - probiere stattdessen Skript aus dem neuen Paket ...
No MailScanner found running; none killed.
invoke-rc.d: initscript mailscanner, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1_all.deb (--install):
 Unterprozess neues pre-removal-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
invoke-rc.d: initscript mailscanner, action "start" failed.
dpkg: Fehler beim Aufräumen:
 Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1_all.deb

3. Attempt: dpkg -i --force-overwrite mailscanner_4.66.5-2_all.deb

11325@mail:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i --force-overwrite mailscanner_4.66.5-2_all.deb
(Lese Datenbank ... 236330 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereiten zum Ersetzen von mailscanner 4.58.9-2ubuntu1 (durch mailscanner_4.66.5-2_all.deb) ...
invoke-rc.d: initscript mailscanner, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: Warnung - altes pre-removal-Skript wurde mit Fehler-Status 1 beendet
dpkg - probiere stattdessen Skript aus dem neuen Paket ...
No MailScanner found running; none killed.
invoke-rc.d: initscript mailscanner, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von mailscanner_4.66.5-2_all.deb (--install):
 Unterprozess neues pre-removal-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
invok...

[Frode M. Døving (frode)]

confirmed.
madagascar:
You can edit /etc/init.d/mailscanner and add a line containing 'exit 0'
at the start of the do_stop() function. Here that is around line 124.

Then update the packages.

Changes needs to be reverted to make the stop function work.
It'll basically tell the pre-removal script it succeeded in stopping mailscanner, without trying to actuallly stop it at all.

[sulla (wolfgang-sailer)]

confirmed!

Same error here in HARDY FINAL RELEASE!

sulla

[domwise (dominic-wise)]

Also have this error.

Fixed (for now) by manual editing of /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm as per the original report.

[max (maxwevers)]

I also had this error and fixed it by editing Message.pm as suggest.

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

Attaching a debdiff to solve this issue via SRU

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

The bug is already set to confirmed so nothing to do there, but an ACK from me.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

[Jasey (jason-rivers)]

I'm still seeing 4.58.9-2-ubuntu1 on the GB Mirror - I'll give it 24 hours to populate before re-trying and testing.

/Jason

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

Uploading ubuntu1.1 and then ubuntu1.2 this fixes the problem for me.

Can people test 4.58.9-2ubuntu1.2 in hardy-proposed, and comment here if it works?

[Jasey (jason-rivers)]

Looks good :)

thanks for that fix - sorry for the delay, I had to do it on a virtual machine as my mail server is now running 4.66.5 from Debian.

will Intrepid use a later version of MailScanner?

Jason

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Currenty it has https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/mailscanner/4.68.8-1

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to hardy-updates.