[Dovecot] Lost login process PID XXXXX
Patrick Linstruth
patrick at qnet.com
Thu Jun 7 08:30:40 EEST 2007
Here's some additional information that might help. These are the current
running processes:
$ ps -ax | grep dovecot
2343 ?? Ss 0:02.99 dovecot
2344 ?? Ss 0:02.97 dovecot
2347 ?? S 0:02.17 dovecot-auth
2348 ?? S 0:02.15 dovecot-auth
7334 ?? Ss 0:12.98 dovecot
7335 ?? S 0:05.90 dovecot-auth
8090 ?? Ss 0:05.25 dovecot
8094 ?? S 0:03.73 dovecot-auth
8194 ?? Ss 0:02.49 dovecot
8197 ?? S 0:01.74 dovecot-auth
9381 ?? Ss 0:00.87 dovecot
9382 ?? Ss 0:00.86 dovecot
9385 ?? S 0:00.64 dovecot-auth
9386 ?? S 0:00.62 dovecot-auth
17247 ?? Ss 0:00.41 dovecot
17250 ?? Ss 0:01.69 dovecot
17252 ?? S 0:00.28 dovecot-auth
17253 ?? S 0:01.71 dovecot-auth
Patrick Linstruth wrote:
> Dear List:
>
> We installed Dovecot v1.0.0 a couple days ago.
>
> After running the software for a couple days, the following happened:
>
> Jun 6 15:58:10 cello dovecot: POP3(sgtdohara): Disconnected: Logged out
> top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
> Jun 6 15:58:10 cello dovecot: POP3(dorene): Disconnected: Logged out
> top=0/0, retr=1/4652, del=1/1, size=4635
> Jun 6 15:58:10 cello dovecot: Lost login process PID 17214
> Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.0 starting up
> Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Socket already exists:
> /qnet/var/run/dovecot/dict-server
> Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot:
> net_listen_unix(/qnet/var/run/dovecot/login/default) failed: Address
> already in use
> Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Couldn't create auth process listener
> Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot:
> net_listen_unix(/qnet/var/run/dovecot/login/default) failed: Address
> already in use
> Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Couldn't create auth process listener
> Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
> Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
> Jun 6 15:58:13 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
> Jun 6 15:58:13 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
> Jun 6 15:58:14 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
> Jun 6 15:58:14 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
> Jun 6 15:58:14 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
>
>
> The "Authentication process 17253 doesn't exist" message continued until
> I changed
> inetd.conf to run our old POP3/IMAP server.
>
> Server vitals:
>
> BSD/OS 4.2 BSDI BSD/OS 4.2 Kernel #2: Tue Feb 21 11:10:22 PST 2006
> 4:46PM up 431 days, 16:40, 6 users, load averages: 1.19, 1.27, 1.02
>
> Any help would be appreciated. We don't want to enable the software
> again until
> we know what caused the problem and hopefully find a solution to keep it
> from
> happening again.
>
> Patrick
>
>
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