[Dovecot] Ubuntu 9.x segmentation fault with vpopmail auth

[Timothy Timmons]

About 5 mins after I sent that email I remembered about bincimapd. It
works great, should have used it from the beginning.

I don't get the point of not just using vchkpw instead of trying to
use libvpopmail, but hey, I'm dumb. ;) 



On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 06:55:29AM -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Timothy Timmons wrote:
> >I've been trying for 24 hours now, to get an IMAP server which will
> >autenticate off of vpopmail cdb database and the auth module always
> >segfaults on login.
> >
> >I'm using vpopmail 5.5.0 only because it is the only version which seems
> >to create a dynamically linked version of the library.
> >
> >I tried latest releases dovecot 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2. Also latest mercurial
> >pulls of 1.1 and 1.2.
> >
> >Even old versions of courier-imap and courier-authlib do it, but with
> >these I can try older versions of vpopmail cause they don't require the
> >dynamically linked version of libvpopmail. So I'm thinking it is
> >something with Ubuntu 9.04 and pretty much all third party vpopmail
> >authentication code.
> >
> >Strangely qmail-pop3d works fine with vchkpwd, just I cannot find any
> >IMAP server that will work no matter what combination of vpopmail and
> >version of the IMAP server.
> >
> >If anyone can figure this out I'd greatly appreciate it.
> >
> >Sep 25 14:43:37 mail kernel: [41432.282133] dovecot-auth[14048]:
> >segfault at 0 ip 00000000 sp bf88c8ec error 14 in
> >dovecot-auth[8048000+40000]
> >
> >Sep 25 15:07:16 mail kernel: [42852.136667] dovecot-auth[21185]:
> >segfault at 0 ip 00000000 sp bfdcce2c error 14 in
> >dovecot-auth[8048000+40000]
> >
> >Sep 25 15:23:59 mail kernel: [43855.048512] dovecot-auth[6927]: segfault
> >at 0 ip 00000000 sp bfd81ecc error 14 in dovecot-auth[8048000+40000]
> >
> >Sep 25 15:55:22 mail kernel: [45737.522566] dovecot-auth[12458]:
> >segfault at 0 ip 00000000 sp bfcc8dfc error 14 in
> >dovecot-auth[8048000+40000]
> >
> >Sep 25 16:14:15 mail kernel: [46870.968589] dovecot-auth[30127]:
> >segfault at 0 ip 00000000 sp bff59f9c error 14 in
> >dovecot-auth[8048000+3d000]
> >Sep 25 16:23:26 mail kernel: [47421.947792] dovecot-auth[15832]:
> >segfault at 0 ip 00000000 sp bf9121ec error 14 in
> >dovecot-auth[8048000+31000]
> >Sep 25 16:27:06 mail kernel: [47641.662788] authvchkpw[17265]: segfault
> >at 0 ip 00000000 sp bf8f240c error 14 in authvchkpw[8048000+5000]
> >
> >etc..
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Tim
> >
> >P.S. I'm going nuts here, trying to get Squirrelmail back up for
> >customers, but I'm absolutely stuck.
> >
> 
> I'm using vpopmail 5.4.17 with dovecot 1.0.10. Have you tried
> rolling your own vpopmail?
> 
> -- 
> -Eric 'shubes'
>