[Dovecot] Still crashing with test-80

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Aug 18 20:44:31 EEST 2005


On 18.8.2005, at 20:23, Matt Juszczak wrote:

> pid 91923 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6

What about the error message why it dies? Dovecot writes to logs the 
reason why it kills itself when it dies with signal 6.

Debugging these require that you get a core dump to the user's home 
directory (Dovecot logs show what user's process crashed). Setting 
mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes in config file hopefully does that. 
Then you'll need to get a backtrace from it against pop3 binary.

> pid 653 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)

Also dovecot-auth writes the reason why it crashes to log file.

> orion# gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap dovecot-auth.core

Sorry, wrong again :) dovecot-auth binary against dovecot-auth.core 
file. pop3 binary against core files created by pop3.

Also your previous backtrace for dovecot-auth was somewhat broken too.. 
Probably because the binaries were stripped. Did you use some binary 
package or compile by hand? Those backtraces would be a lot better if 
the debugging info wasn't stripped away..
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