[Dovecot] Login Fails: epoll_ctl(1, 7): Operation not permitted

[Thomas Suckow]

Working on setting up dovecot and having trouble logging in.
I get an error in logs (below) indicating Operation not Permitted.
auth_debug doesn't help.

Ideas?

# dovecot --version
1.1.7

# dovecot -n
# 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 i686 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1
listen: *,[::]
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
mail_location: maildir:~/.maildir
auth default:
  verbose: yes
  debug: yes
  passdb:
    driver: pam
    args: *
  userdb:
    driver: passwd

Log (server name is adapter, I know it's an odd name...):
Jul  9 20:44:48 adapter dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=11185
Jul  9 20:44:48 adapter dovecot: Fatal: imap-login:
io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 7): Operation not permitted
Jul  9 20:44:48 adapter dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=11186
Jul  9 20:44:48 adapter dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=11187
Jul  9 20:44:48 adapter dovecot: Fatal: imap-login:
io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 7): Operation not permitted
Jul  9 20:44:48 adapter dovecot: Fatal: imap-login:
io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 7): Operation not permitted

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Thomas Suckow