[Dovecot] Still crashing with test-80

[Matt Juszczak]

I'm compiling dovecot from a 1.0 port that Dominic made originally.  I can 
add some manual flags to it that might help.

Also, I wasn't able to find anything in the logs about the error message. 
Is there something I could grep on?

-Matt

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> 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..
>