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Lucas Kauffman
Asked: 2013-06-07 05:04:19 +0800 CST

Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy: Unresolved Dependencies

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So I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy and Dovecot failed to resolve dependencies:

dpkg: error processing dovecot-pop3d (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dovecot-core
 dovecot-gssapi
 dovecot-sqlite
 dovecot-pgsql
 dovecot-sieve
 dovecot-mysql
 dovecot-imapd
 dovecot-common
 dovecot-ldap
 dovecot-pop3d

After searching around on the internet I found the following article: http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/59796-dovecot-fails-during-wheezy-upgrade Now I've got two options:

  • make it work somehow
  • remove the dovecot install and upgrade it to dovecot 2.0

Has anyone used either of these approaches or does anyone have a better idea to make this work?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Start by running:

    doveconf -n -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > dovecot-2.conf

    It will show you the error messages and which dovecot currently fails. For me this was SSL:

    doveconf: Error: ssl enabled, but ssl_cert not set
doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: ssl enabled, but ssl_cert not set

    I ended up uncommenting the SSL section and setting the correct paths to the certificates. After this came the following error:

    [....] Starting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotFatal: service(auth) access(/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth) failed: No such file or directory
 failed!

    I had a /usr/lib/dovecot/auth file but not a dovecot-auth file. So I created a symbolic link:

    ln -s /usr/lib/dovecot/auth /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth

    This fixed my issues.

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