[Dovecot] ?? Error: child 1064 (imap) killed with signal 4
Benton Haynes
benton.haynes at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 16:58:52 EEST 2007
Hi Timo,
Thanks for the instruction as to how to debug this.
> You could try running imap manually with gdb:
> gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
> r
I've not used gdb before. Reading MAN page, and some instructions online, I
tried to launch as you had instructed, but it died off.
gdb --quiet /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
Reading symbols for shared libraries ..... done
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
Reading symbols for shared libraries .++ done
imap(root): Error: Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do
with it: /var/mail/root (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:)
imap(root): Fatal: Failed to create storage with data: /var/mail/root
Program exited with code 0131.
(gdb) q
Next, I instead tried to launch imap manually from the command line, with
the goal of then 'attach'-ing the PID in gdb, but it also fails.
/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
imap(root): Error: Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do
with it: /var/mail/root (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:)
imap(root): Fatal: Failed to create storage with data: /var/mail/root
Since dovecot starts ok when I do
/usr/local/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
I thought it might need the configuration file, too.
But, the same error happens.
/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
imap(root): Error: Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do
with it: /var/mail/root (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:)
imap(root): Fatal: Failed to create storage with data: /var/mail/root
Any further pointers? Thanks for being patient.
-- Ben
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