[Dovecot] dovecot can't start!

[Oleg D.]

Hello Robin,

Friday, June 2, 2006, 7:46:33 PM, you wrote:

RB> On 30 May 2006, at 14:30, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 19:20 +0400, Oleg D. wrote:
>>> MB> However another solution was provided by Timo in the form of a  
>>> simple patch
>>> MB> that made changes to a couple of source files.  I hope Timo  
>>> doesn't mind:
>>> MB> I'm re-sending his patch as an attachment to this message as  
>>> it is tiny.
>>> MB> You could try applying it and rebuilding Dovecot.
>>>
>>> But I use FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p15 with native compiler.
>>> Really nobody has this problem on freebsd?
>>
>> I think the patch could have solved your problem, since the error
>> message really looks the same as what it was made to fix. Also the SSL
>> error it causes could be explained by the same problem (ssl_listen_fd
>> contains a random number which just happens to be a socket).
>>
>> Maybe FreeBSD 4.11 has a bit older gcc which doesn't by default  
>> compile
>> with C99 enabled.

RB> My 1.0.b8_1 update to the FreeBSD port was committed on the 27th of May.
RB> It includes a simple patch to resolve the C99 issue.
RB> It also contained a fix for a dlerror() reset issue; I hope the  
RB> originator has already reported this to you Timo? If not, details  
RB> here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=97671.

RB> Regards,
RB> Robin

Yes. This port update has solved all my problems.

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 Oleg                            mailto:dzoleg at rsute.ru