[Dovecot] problems with dotlock

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:28 -0800, Mark Hedges wrote:
> > b) Kernel doesn't want to write the core to /tmp/core or
> > before changing that it didn't want to write it to user's
> > home directory.
> 
> [root at anubis etc]# grep -i core
> /boot/config-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
> CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
> # Core Netfilter Configuration
> CONFIG_MLX4_CORE=m
> CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
> # CONFIG_I2C_OCORES is not set
> # CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CORE is not set
> CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
> CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
> 
> Is that informative?

core dumping functionality is there, but I guess the problem has more to
do with directory owner/permissions where it's writing the core file.

> pop3_lock_session(pop3): yes

Ah, this explains everything. Fixed both your problem and the segfault:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/f831d12187d1
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