[Dovecot] service anvil and ssl-params not starts with dovecot started

[Dewey Du]

1) strace -tt -p <pid>
Process 2641 attached - interrupt to quit
22:32:35.816987 epoll_wait(9,


2) gdb -p <pid>
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Attaching to process 2913
Reading symbols from
/usr/local/server/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/config...done.
Reading symbols from
/usr/local/server/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/local/server/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib64/libc.so.6...^[[A(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib64/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/libdl.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libiconv.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libiconv.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib64/librt.so.1...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/librt.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib64/libpthread.so.0...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Loaded symbols for /lib64/libpthread.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib64/libnss_files.so.2...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/libnss_files.so.2
0x00007f18489ebee3 in __epoll_wait_nocancel () from /lib64/libc.so.6
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install
glibc-2.12-1.107.el6_4.2.x86_64
(gdb) Hangup detected on fd 0
error detected on stdin
A debugging session is active.

Inferior 1 [process 2913] will be detached.

Quit anyway? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]
Detaching from program: /usr/local/server/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/config,
process 2913



Extra information:

Everything goes well at the beginning. After a power failure, dovecot
doesn't work as well as it did. I attached the log at that moment to see if
it helps troubleshooting.

“2013-08-21 17:37:39 ”master: Info: Dovecot v2.2.5 starting up (core dumps
disabled)
“2013-08-21 17:38:04 ”master: Error: service(anvil): Initial status
notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process
“2013-08-21 17:38:04 ”master: Error: service(ssl-params): Initial status
notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process
“2013-08-21 17:38:04 ”anvil: Fatal: master: service(anvil): child 2039
killed with signal 9
“2013-08-21 17:38:04 ”ssl-params: Fatal: master: service(ssl-params): child
2041 killed with signal 9
“2013-08-21 17:38:14 ”anvil: Error: Anvil client input error: Unknown
command: VERSION
“2013-08-21 17:38:14 ”anvil: Error: Anvil client input error: Unknown
command: VERSION


 Thanks very much.


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On 26.9.2013, at 15.07, Dewey Du <deweyto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My dovecot started with the error below. What's the most possible reason
> > for the error?
> >
> > “2013-08-28 11:41:40 ”master: Info: Dovecot v2.2.5 starting up (core
> dumps
> > disabled)
> > “2013-08-28 11:42:00 ”anvil: Fatal: Error reading configuration: Timeout
> > reading config from /var/run/dovecot/config
>
> The config process is stuck for some reason. Try to find out what it's
> doing. Immediately after you start dovecot, find the config process pid,
> and do:
>
> 1) strace -tt -p <pid> (for about a second or so)
>
> 2) gdb -p <pid>
> bt full
>
> and mail the results.
>
>