[Dovecot] trouble debugging

[Aaron Solochek]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 6.1.2007, at 3.35, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> 
>>>> I can authenticate and get a list of folders, but when I try to 
>>>> select a folder, I get the "Internal error" message that tells me to 
>>>> check the server logs.  The server log shows:
>>>>
>>>> Jan  5 19:43:42 sausage dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<aarons>, 
>>>> method=plain, rip=XXX, lip=XXX, TLS
>>>> Jan  5 19:43:43 sausage dovecot: IMAP(aarons): Effective uid=1000, 
>>>> gid=1000
>>>> Jan  5 19:43:43 sausage dovecot: IMAP(aarons): Namespace: 
>>>> type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no
>>>> Jan  5 19:43:43 sausage dovecot: IMAP(aarons): maildir: 
>>>> data=/XXX/aarons/Maildir
>>>> Jan  5 19:43:43 sausage dovecot: IMAP(aarons): maildir: 
>>>> root=/XXX/aarons/Maildir, index=/XXX/aarons/Maildir, control=, inbox=
>>>>
>>>> How can I get better debugging info?  I've tried all the debugging 
>>>> options in dovecot.conf.
>>> You're showing only the debugging information, not the actual error 
>>> message. If you don't see the error, it's probably because it's 
>>> logged into different log file. Many syslogs are configured to write 
>>> "info" messages to different log file than "error" messages. So try 
>>> finding the actual error message from another file. If you can't find 
>>> it, set log_path manually to some file and look there.
>>
>> I tried that (I just tried again) and I get the exact same info in my 
>> manually specified /tmp/dovecot.log.  I ensured that file was 
>> world-writeable just to be safe.
> 
> And there's nothing after those? I can't really say anything else than 
> that if "internal error" comes, there is _always_ written an error 
> message about it in the logs, and none of the above messages are an error..
> 
> What about if you set log_path and info_log_path to different files? Is 
> the log_path's file totally empty all the time?
> 

The warning when shutting down goes to the log_path, and the debug stuff goes to 
the info_log_path.  No error show up.  When I run imap directly I get errors 
logged to stderr if I don't have credentials to access my maildir, but no errors 
anywhere if I do.

-Aaron