No se puede instalar nada que dependa de spamassassin. Ni siquiera puedo instalar spamassasin

No se puede instalar nada que dependa de spamassassin. Ni siquiera puedo instalar spamassasin

Estoy intentando instalar mailscannerusando apt-get install mailscannery me sale el siguiente error

Setting up spamassassin (3.3.1-1) ...
Starting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: child process [21344] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 255 at /usr/sbin/spamd line 2588.
invoke-rc.d: initscript spamassassin, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing spamassassin (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailscanner:
 mailscanner depends on spamassassin (>= 3.1); however:
  Package spamassassin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mailscanner (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 spamassassin
 mailscanner
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

y cuando intenté instalar spamassassinme salió el siguiente error:

Setting up spamassassin (3.3.1-1) ...
Starting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: child process [21389] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 255 at /usr/sbin/spamd line 2588.
invoke-rc.d: initscript spamassassin, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing spamassassin (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailscanner:
 mailscanner depends on spamassassin (>= 3.1); however:
  Package spamassassin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mailscanner (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 spamassassin
 mailscanner
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Estoy usando Ubuntu Server 10.04

Respuesta1

El problema parece estar resuelto. Lo hice apt-get install --purge spamassassindespués de detener el servicio.

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