[Dovecot] 1.2.rc3 crash of deliver for one out of 4 recipients

Wolfgang.Friebel at desy.de Wolfgang.Friebel at desy.de
Tue Jun 30 00:08:50 EEST 2009


On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 17:07 +0200, Wolfgang.Friebel at desy.de wrote:
>> This is the first and only crash I could find in the logs
>> (approx 500k Lines of postfix/dovecot logs)
>>
>> The following information could be extracted from the logfile (no core
>> dump unfortunately)
>>
>> May 31 02:07:25 apollo dovecot: deliver(user1): Panic:
>> file istream.c: line 99 (i_stream_read): assertion failed:
>> ((size_t)ret+old_size == _stream->pos - _stream->skip)
>
> I suppose this hasn't happened since? Core dump from this would be
> really interesting. I've also attached a patch that could at least show
> if my guess it right where it probably crashed..
>
No, it did not happen again. I would get now a coredump if dovecot was 
crashing another time. In addition I watch the mail log file, there are no 
errors recorded (for about 100k messages received) since that crash.

See you in Berlin!


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