I just updated via webmin and had failures in Dovecot. Webmin shows Dovecot as not running but it is in running processes. Email seems to work too.
Setting up dovecot-core (1:2.2.27-3+deb9u3) ... Job for dovecot.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status dovecot.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript dovecot, action "start" failed.● dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2019-02-11 00:45:53 UTC; 21ms ago Docs: man:dovecot(1) http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ Process: 1492 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot (code=exited, status=89) Main PID: 824 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Feb 11 00:45:53 s1.vcch.org systemd[1]: Starting Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email ser…... Feb 11 00:45:53 s1.vcch.org dovecot[1492]: Fatal: Dovecot is already running…gin Feb 11 00:45:53 s1.vcch.org dovecot[1492]: master: Fatal: Dovecot is already…gin Feb 11 00:45:53 s1.vcch.org systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Control process exi…=89 Feb 11 00:45:53 s1.vcch.org systemd[1]: Failed to start Dovecot IMAP/POP3 em…er. Feb 11 00:45:53 s1.vcch.org systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Unit entered failed…te. Feb 11 00:45:53 s1.vcch.org systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Failed with result …e'. Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full. dpkg: error processing package dovecot-core (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up libapt-inst2.0:amd64 (1.4.9) ... Setting up libcurl3:amd64 (7.52.1-5+deb9u9) ... Setting up apt-utils (1.4.9) ... Setting up libcurl3-gnutls:amd64 (7.52.1-5+deb9u9) ... Setting up libgd3:amd64 (2.2.4-2+deb9u4) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u3) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dovecot-pop3d: dovecot-pop3d depends on dovecot-core (= 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u3); however: Package dovecot-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package dovecot-pop3d (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for systemd (232-25+deb9u8) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dovecot-imapd: dovecot-imapd depends on dovecot-core (= 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u3); however: Package dovecot-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package dovecot-imapd (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up php-pear (1:1.10.1+submodules+notgz-9+deb9u1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Setting up openssh-client (1:7.4p1-10+deb9u5) ... Setting up curl (7.52.1-5+deb9u9) ... Setting up openssh-sftp-server (1:7.4p1-10+deb9u5) ... Setting up openssh-server (1:7.4p1-10+deb9u5) ... Errors were encountered while processing: dovecot-core dovecot-pop3d dovecot-imapd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) .. install failed!
