[Dovecot] dovecot-auth failed: Not enough space

[S. A. Woltering]

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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 14:52 +0100, S. A. Woltering wrote:
>> execv(/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth) failed: Not enough space
> 
> Increase auth_process_size or just set it to 0.
> 

Thanks for this Timo. It gets me a little closer!
Now, I start the daemon as before and I get...

# /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot
Info: If you have trouble with authentication failures,
enable auth_debug setting. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/WhyDoesItNotWork

Not a good start...

So I poke about in syslog and find...

Aug 24 17:02:37 bilbo dovecot: Dovecot v1.2.4 starting up
Aug 24 17:02:38 bilbo dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login
processes, slowing down for now
Aug 24 17:02:38 bilbo dovecot: child 23188 (login) returned error 84
(exec() failed)
Aug 24 17:02:38 bilbo dovecot: child 23187 (login) returned error 84
(exec() failed)
Aug 24 17:02:38 bilbo dovecot: Fatal:
execv(/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login) failed: Not enough space
Aug 24 17:02:38 bilbo  above message repeats 5 times
Aug 24 17:02:38 bilbo dovecot: child 23186 (login) returned error 84
(exec() failed)

Oh no!
Connection via thunderbird client simply stops for the timeout period
and complains that connection to server has timed out.

Processes running on the server are:
# ps -ef | grep dove
    root 26261     1  0 17:14:15 ?         0:00 /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot
    root 26263 26261  0 17:14:15 ?         0:00 dovecot-auth -w
    root 26262 26261  0 17:14:15 ?         0:00 dovecot-auth

No IMAP processes at all. :-(

Sorry about the repeated questioning.
A

PS: Yes I do enable auth_debug, but it doesn't tell me anything extra...

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