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Description of problem: dnf update: ... Upgrading : postfix-2:3.1.2-1.fc24.x86_64 28/166 error reading information on service sendmail: No such file or directory ... postfix seems to have a dependency on sendmail such that an update of postfix returns an error if sendmail is not installed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -qa postfix postfix-3.1.2-1.fc24.x86_64 How reproducible: Last couple of updates Steps to Reproduce: (I'm guessing, but) 1. install postfix 2. remove sendmail 3. Actual results: postfix throws errors on update with no sendmail installed Expected results: postfix install does not throw errors on update with no sendmail installed Additional info: May be related to Bug 1359045 which seems to be caused by a reliance of postfix on sendmail's install of /usr/bin/newaliases
I am not able to reproduce on freshly provisioned x86_64 f24 machine. I did: # dnf install sendmail # dnf install postfix # dnf downgrade postfix # dnf remove sendmail # dnf update postfix And also several different combinations of install/uninstall/update, but all worked as expected. Also I can't see any problem with the newaliases, they seems to work correctly for me. I think there is something wrong with your installation/upgrade (leftover files etc.).
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