[Dovecot] Strange signal 11 crashes

[Mrten]

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

hi,

> * Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de>:
>> * Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
>>>> Jan 28 01:39:13 postamt dovecot: child 5939 (imap) killed with signal 11
>>> gdb backtraces would help fix this: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
>> OK, let's see what my changes will bring :)
> 
> The gods are mocking me. After my changes to enable core dumps,
> dovecot won't crash :(

signal 11-s are often a sign of faulty hardware...

have you tried compiling the linux kernel a few times with make -j4?

http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/

(that is, if you're running linux of course)

M.