[Dovecot] dovecot can't start!

[Chris H.]

Quoting "Oleg D." <dzoleg at rsute.ru>:

> Hello Chris,
>
> Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 8:36:00 PM, you wrote:
>
> CH> Quoting "Oleg D." <dzoleg at rsute.ru>:
>
>>> MB> Hmmm... I was seeing a problem rather like this with 1.0beta8
>>> under Solaris
>>> MB> with Sun's compiler: only it was with the IMAP protocol rather 
>>> than POP.
>>>
>>> MB> The problem there was an assumption Tio had made that everyone
>>> was using a
>>> MB> C99-compatible compiler.  Apparently this handles some aspects of
>>> variable
>>> MB> initialisation differently from earlier C compilers.
>>>
>>> MB> In my case adding a command-line option to the C compiler to 
>>> flip it into
>>> MB> C99 mode seemed to solve the problem.  The option for our compiler was
>>> MB> "-xc99" -- however if your compiler has such an option it may have a
>>> MB> different name.  If you check the manual page for your C 
>>> compiler you may
>>> MB> find an equivalent option to try.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> MB> Cheers,
>>> MB> Mike Brudenell
>>>
>>> But I use FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p15 with native compiler.
>>> Really nobody has this problem on freebsd?
>>>
>>> And the main - Why I can't start dovecot without SSL :)
>>> Why I see in log "pop3-login: BUG: SSL initialization parameters not
>>> given while they should have been"
>>> even if I have "ssl_disable = yes" in dovecot.conf
>>> 1.0b3 works fine.
>>> This problem is main for me
>>> because I don't want to use SSL.
>
> CH> I run FreeBSD here, and my hunch is that SSL (or some form) was
> CH> compiled it. Which would help explain the errors you describe.
> CH> What "knobs" did you use when you built it? Did you simply take
> CH> the default without examining the Makefile? My hunch is that if
> CH> you take a closer look at how it was built and installed; you'll
> CH> find some form of SSL/ encryption was built into it, and you'll
> CH> either have to: cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot; make deinstall;
> CH> tweak the Makefile to your needs; make reinstall. Or figure out
> CH> how to utilize the security method that was built in by default.
> CH> Perhaps SASL2, or GSSAPI, as I see they're options in the Makefile.
>
> CH> Best wishes. I hope this helps.
>
> CH> --Chris H.
>
> I have just delete section in src/login-common/main.c:
>
>
>                if (net_getsockname(LOGIN_SSL_LISTEN_FD, NULL, NULL) == 0) {
>                        if (!ssl_initialized) {
>                                /* this shouldn't happen, master should have
>                                   disabled the ssl socket.. */
>                                i_fatal("BUG: SSL initialization parameters "
>                                        "not given while they should have "
>                                        "been");
>                        }
>
>                        io_ssl_listen = io_add(LOGIN_SSL_LISTEN_FD, IO_READ,
>                                               login_accept_ssl, NULL);
>                }
>
> set "ssl_disable = yes"
>
> and dovecot start and work normal :)

Excellent. Thanks for taking the time to share the solution.

--Chris H.

> just for testing
> probably it will help to discovering the bug.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Oleg                            mailto:dzoleg at rsute.ru
>
>
>



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