[Dovecot] 1.1rc1 signal 6 crash (with backtrace)

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Mon Feb 25 12:49:16 EET 2008


* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On Feb 25, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>
>>    fmt=0x80e9534 "Trying to close mailbox %s with open transactions",
> ..
>>    #6  0x0805f9db in cmd_logout (cmd=0x81040c0) at cmd-logout.c:18
>
> Any idea how to reproduce this?

User has a huge mailbox, probably the client runs into a timeout and
disconnects.

> Dovecot catches this error a bit too late for the backtrace to be
> useful. What plugins do you use?
$ /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -n  |grep -i plug

mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota trash mail_log
mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota trash mail_log
mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_log

> Anyway this isn't too bad because the client had already disconnected.
:)

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