Dovecot does not start on MacOS 12.01

[Steven Smith]

I confirm that a working workaround on macOS 12 is to simply remove these lines from ./src/lib/restrict-process-size.c:

https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/a5209c83c3a82386c94d466eec5fea394973e88f/src/lib/restrict-process-size.c#L12-L23


> On Dec 19, 2021, at 11:26 AM, Steven Smith <steve.t.smith at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Re: https://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg84784.html <https://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg84784.html>
> 
> I just upgraded to macOS 12.1, ran into this issue, and discovered this thread from the error message.
> 
> Is there a viable workaround or patch yet?
> 
> I tried the workaround in this thread, and still see these issues.
> 
> Set default_vsz_limit = 0 in ./conf.d/10-master.conf.
> 
> Observe that:
> dovecot now launches without the setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 268435456) error at the command line
> However, the mail-err.log is still filled with these errors (below), perhaps for the child processes.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 imap-login: Error: Dec 19 11:22:06 service(imap-login): Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 2147483648): Invalid argument
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 imap-login: Error: Dec 19 11:22:06 service(imap-login): Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 2147483648): Invalid argument
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 imap-login: Error: Dec 19 11:22:06 service(imap-login): Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 2147483648): Invalid argument
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 imap-login: Error: Dec 19 11:22:06 service(imap-login): Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 2147483648): Invalid argument
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 imap-login: Error: Dec 19 11:22:06 service(imap-login): Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 2147483648): Invalid argument
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 imap-login: Fatal: master: service(imap-login): child 4629 returned error 89 (Fatal failure)
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling for 2.000 secs
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 imap-login: Fatal: master: service(imap-login): child 4630 returned error 89 (Fatal failure)
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 imap-login: Fatal: master: service(imap-login): child 4628 returned error 89 (Fatal failure)
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 imap-login: Fatal: master: service(imap-login): child 4627 returned error 89 (Fatal failure)
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 imap-login: Fatal: master: service(imap-login): child 4619 returned error 89 (Fatal failure)
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 imap-login: Error: Dec 19 11:22:06 service(imap-login): Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 2147483648): Invalid argument
>> Dec 19 11:22:06 imap-login: Fatal: master: service(imap-login): child 4631 returned error 89 (Fatal failure)
>> Dec 19 11:22:09 imap-login: Error: Dec 19 11:22:09 service(imap-login): Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 2147483648): Invalid argument
>> Dec 19 11:22:09 imap-login: Fatal: master: service(imap-login): child 4638 returned error 89 (Fatal failure)
>> Dec 19 11:22:09 master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling for 4.000 secs
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 14:55:25 +0200, Aki Tuomi said:
>> 
>> I think this is happening because MacOS no longer supports RLIMIT_DATA. We'll 
>> try to look into this. default_vsz_limit = 0 seems good enough workaround.
>> Aki
> 
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