[Dovecot] 1.0beta8 won't start: Fatal: Protocol imaps given more than once

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Timo,

I installed beta8 plus your patch on Solaris 10 sparc, and it seems
to be working so far...

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Sat, 13 May 2006, grant beattie wrote:

> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 10:52:01 +1000
> From: grant beattie <grant at grunta.com>
> To: Mike Brudenell <pmb1 at york.ac.uk>
> Cc: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>, dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 1.0beta8 won't start: Fatal: Protocol imaps given more
>     than once
> 
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:28:25PM +0100, Mike Brudenell wrote:
>
>> Greetings -
>>
>> --On 12 May 2006 16:00:31 +0300 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>>> OK, I guess you didn't compile with C99-compatible C compiler.
>>
>> If it's any help I'm using a quite up to date copy of Sun's WSpro C
>> compiler (don't know if there's a more up to date product name: they change
>> it every now and then)...
>>
>>    % cc -V
>>    cc: Sun C 5.8 Patch 121016-02 2006/03/31
>>
>> Its man page mentions a "-xc99" command line option which I've just tried
>> using to build the (unpatched) source ... which then runs fine.
>>
>>
>>> The problem is that Dovecot fallbacks to old way of initializing structs,
>>> and looks like I've been lazy and not keeping them working properly.
>>>
>>> Attached patch should fix it.
>>
>> I then applied your patch and rebuilt Dovecot *without* the "-xc99"
>> compiler option ... and that, too, works fine.
>
> Timo, Mike,
>
> I wonder if this has something to do with the occasional crashing
> problem I'm observing on Solaris?... I am using
>
> # /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -V
> cc: Sun C 5.7 Patch 117837-04 2005/05/11
>
> I'll give this a try later today.
>
> grant.
>