[Dovecot] ?? Error: child 1064 (imap) killed with signal 4

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:05 -0700, Benton Haynes wrote:
> So it's not dying at least at startup. Maybe an easier way would be to
> > make the process dump core and gdb the core file. See
> > http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps
> 
> 
> I'm still not clear how one gets gdb to exec 'imap' WITH the config file.

If imap process dies at startup, it's a bit difficult to gdb because you
can't attach to it and as far as I know it's not possible to make gdb
follow execs.

> I'll see if I can figure out from the wiki what the acl problem is.  But,
> even if my acl usage is configured wrong, some sort of error other than the
> 'SIGILL' would be helpful.

Well, you should be able to do:

ACL=vfile:/etc/dovecot/acl_files MAIL_PLUGINS=acl MAIL=~/Maildir gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
run
bt

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