[Dovecot] Solaris 10 x64 - crash report

[Jeff A. Earickson]

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Rob Shepherd wrote:

> Please tell me how to produce a backtrace if one is needed if this is an
> actual bug.....

Hi,
First, make sure that:

mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes

is set in your dovecot.conf file so you get core dumps.  If you
have one, maybe you did this already.  Then do a "file core" to
find out what process caused the core, eg imap.

What I do is move the core file to the same directory as the executable,
and run gdb:

gdb imap core
backtrace

following by further poking around with gdb.  I compile dovecot with
gcc, but the idea is the same.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College