Hi everyone, i am updating my server on a regular base using the following command apt-get update apt-get upgrade Now the following error comes up every time: Code: apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Setting up sasl2-bin (2.1.19.dfsg1-0.2) ... Starting SASL Authentication Daemon: (failed). invoke-rc.d: initscript saslauthd, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing sasl2-bin (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: sasl2-bin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) What can i do and how does that affect my system. when i run nmap localhost smtp, smtp ssl, pop3 ssl and imap ssl seem to work Any help is very appreached!!! Cheers PM
Have a look here for what SASL is. Maybe try removing the package with Code: apt-get remove sasl2-bin and reinstalling with Code: apt-get install sasl2-bin Or try a Code: apt-get --reinstall install sasl2-bin #or apt-get -f --reinstall install sasl2-bin
