postfix upgrade failure

[Jacek Konieczny]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:19:27AM +0200, Tomasz Pala wrote:
> Stopping Postfix service...........................................[ DONE ]
> Starting Postfix service...........................................[ FAIL ]
> 
> error: %post(postfix-2.2.3-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> There were errors
> 
> maillog says:
> 
> Jun 17 03:15:37 pepin postfix/smtpd[17237]: warning: connect to private/tlsmgr: No such file or dir
> ectory
> Jun 17 03:15:38 pepin postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
> Jun 17 03:15:38 pepin postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running
> 
> I had to manually uninstall postfix-2.1.5 and restart postix. It works.

Probably, when upgrading, postfix should be stopped in %pre and started
in %post. Which is what postfix documentation say, but is not widely
used in our packages and I am not sure how to do that right.

Greets,
	Jacek