[Dovecot] Assert in mech.c

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Dec 7 22:39:03 EET 2004


On 7.12.2004, at 16:07, Andrew Hutchings wrote:

> Dec  7 11:54:08 svr21 dovecot: auth(sql8): file mech.c: line 143
> (mech_auth_finish): assertion failed: (*requests != request)

What userdb, passdb and auth mechanisms do you use? Could you get gdb 
backtrace from that crash? It should have written core file to 
/var/run/dovecot/ I think.

> Is this assert important or can I remove it from my copy of the code?

It means that the same request was added twice to failure list. Without 
that assert it would have crashed sometimes later.
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