Dovecot not installing?

[dorucrisan]

I had a problem with a server and had to reinstall. First, fake zipbomb alert due to recent DA update, then, some space issue, /root went to 100% for unknown reason.
Server used to have AL8 +DA installed, now I used AL9.
Problem is that at the end of install process I had a message saying Dovecot was not installed and if I want Dovecot, then use "da build dovecot".
Done that, but got the same message at the end. Dovecot fails to install.
I remember I had same problem while trying to update Dovecot when server was working, before reinstall.

Updating dovecot configuration files...
/proc/self/fd/3: line 485: /usr/sbin/dovecot: No such file or directory
dovecot is not installed, install it using:
da build dovecot

Other thing, I noticed AL10 is out, tried to install that first, but even DA says it is compatible, it is not, I got an error message saying it won't install, asking to downgrade the OS or upgrade the license. Licence used was a lifetime license purchased back in time while those were available. Even English is not my native language, I understand the meaning of "lifetime". I am sorry to say that DA has more and more issues recently and frankly I don't want to go back to CP. DA used to be rock solid for many years. I can not even count for how many years I've been using it.

 

[Richard G]

da build dovecot

First of all. Did you wait long enough when installing that you got the message that all background tasks were finished?
If yes, try to do this command again, but then via SSH as root. If it fails again, then you should clearly see error messages, post them here.

AL10 is out, tried to install that first, but even DA says it is compatible, it is not

It is, but as stated on the forums already, AL10 is not supported in legacy licenses. You have legacy licenses to just like MariaDB 10.11 you also can not use AL10. If you want to use a more modern OS and MariaDB, you have to upgrade your personal license to a personal plus license.
That way you can use everything again, upgrade what you want, use all supported OS and have ticket support again too.

 

[dorucrisan]

First of all. Did you wait long enough when installing that you got the message that all background tasks were finished?
If yes, try to do this command again, but then via SSH as root. If it fails again, then you should clearly see error messages, post them here.


It is, but as stated on the forums already, AL10 is not supported in legacy licenses. You have legacy licenses to just like MariaDB 10.11 you also can not use AL10. If you want to use a more modern OS and MariaDB, you have to upgrade your personal license to a personal plus license.
That way you can use everything again, upgrade what you want, use all supported OS and have ticket support again too.

Thanks Richard, for me it is just weird to renew/change a lifetime license purchased as such. Lifetime is lifetime. That DA wants more money, I can understand, we all want that, but it's just unethical to customers.

 

[Richard G]

The licenses still work so seen as such they are lifetime. There has already a lot of discussion been about that in some topics so I won't repeat the arguments and the lifetime meaning in software land, but for sure there is a reason they have to do the cutbacks. It's not unethical although it can feel that way.