[Dovecot] Pam trouble

[Benjamin Dabelow]

> > Child died with signal 11
> 
> Is this the exact error message? Dovecot doesn't send this, so do you
> mean it's PAM subprocess that dies or dovecot-auth process itself?
The complete error is:
dovecot-auth: Feb 25 18:55:17 Error: PAM: Child process died
dovecot-auth: Feb 25 18:55:18 Error: PAM: Child 2179 died with signal 11

So it's the pam process crashing.

> Crashes are better debugged with gdb:
> 
> gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth (pid of dovecot-auth)
> 
> Enter "c" command to let it continue. Try logging in. gdb should show
> that it crashed now. Enter "bt" command and send me the result.
As I'm new to gdb, I'm stuck here. dovecot-auth does not crash so I'm not back
to the gdb prompt. How do I get any output (CTRL-C does not work.)?

> If it crashes inside pam_ldap handler, it's a bug in it.
At least pam_ldap is fine with man other services (login,smtp auth, ssh).

Thanks for your time.

	Benjamin
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