Re: [Dovecot] dovecot crash after upgrade on FreeBSD

Marko Lerota wrote:

Updated from ports collection from ver. dovecot-1.0.a3 to 1.0.a4_1. And it wan't work. Here's the log

Nov 8 10:51:07 ot-group dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 starting up Nov 8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Nov 8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: auth(default): Unknown userdb driver 'passdb' Nov 8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: child 17872 (auth) returned error 89

I had the same problem when going from 1.0alpha3 to 1.0alpha4.

Fix for me was to remove:

userdb passdb {}

from dovecot.conf.

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