[Dovecot] dovecot stopping - no messages

[Nigel Allen]

Re my last "everything is fine" message.

Yup, you guessed it - about 5 minutes ago the users all started ringing
me - mail had died again.

Tried a "service dovecot status" and got a "dovecot dead but subsys
locked". Did a "service dovecot start" and away it went again.

>From the earlier advice, there is no core in /var/run/dovecot but I will
try the gdb instructions (newbie with gdb) and post the resuults.

Thanks again

Nigel.


On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 19:13, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:32 +1000, Nigel Allen wrote:
> > Greetings
> > 
> > Running Fedora Core 3 and dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3 as a production mail
> > server for around 30+ accounts.
> > 
> > A couple of times a day dovecot just stops.
> > 
> > Nothing in the mail log except for 
> > 
> > Apr 26 00:48:19 sydsrv05 imap-login: Can't connect to auth process at
> > default: Connection refused
> 
> Sounds like Dovecot's master process crashes. Is there a core file
> in /var/run/dovecot directory? If so, do:
> 
> gdb dovecot /var/run/dovecot/core
> bt
> 
> and send the result here.
> 
> Or alternatively do:
> 
> gdb attach `pidof dovecot`
> cont
> (wait for it to crash)
> bt
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