dovecot: imap-login: Panic: Trying to allocate 0 bytes
Ron Garret
ron.garret at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 20:49:47 UTC 2016
Figured it out. Turned out to be a corrupted ssl parameter file.
On Mar 7, 2016, at 1:01 PM, Ron Garret <ron.garret at gmail.com> wrote:
> My ISP had a hard drive crash. After the dust settled, my dovecot installation started failing with the following error every time a client tries to connect:
>
> dovecot: imap-login: Panic: Trying to allocate 0 bytes
>
> My installation has otherwise been stable and rock-solid for years. Both I and the techs at my ISP are stumped. Any advice on how to debug this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Vital info:
>
> [ron at vm1:/etc/dovecot]$ /usr/sbin/dovecot -n
> # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.10
> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
> ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/local-certs/startssl.ca.pem
> ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/local-certs/...
> ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/local-keys/...
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
> first_valid_uid: 100
> mail_privileged_group: mail
> mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
> auth default:
> user: postfix
> passdb:
> driver: sql
> args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
> userdb:
> driver: prefetch
> socket:
> type: listen
> client:
> path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
> mode: 432
> user: postfix
> group: postfix
>
> I have checked the MySQL configuration and everything seems to be OK there. In fact, I’ve checked everything that I know how to check, and everything seems to be OK. And yet it is not working.
>
> Many thanks,
> rg
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