[Dovecot] Panic: file mempool-system.c: line 104

[Timo Sirainen]

Run ulimit -c unlimited before starting dovecot. And note that several
distributions override the ulimit if you use /etc/init.d/dovecot to
start it. Newer Dovecot versions (v1.1.9+) say at startup if core dumps
are disabled.

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 23:06 +0300, Martins Lazdans wrote:
> No, there is no core dumps. I believe I can somehow enable to dump core?
> 
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 21:37 +0300, Martins Lazdans wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> I have used Dovecot for more than a year without problems, but today it
> >> just crashed with this message:
> >>
> >> dovecot: Apr 09 21:23:38 Panic: file mempool-system.c: line 104
> >> (pool_system_realloc): assertion failed: (old_size == (size_t)-1 || mem
> >> == NULL || old_size <= malloc_usable_size(mem))
> > 
> > Did Dovecot happen to write a core file somewhere? Should be in base_dir
> > (e.g. /var/run/dovecot)? A gdb backtrace would be helpful.
> > 
> 
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