21/06/2008 14.37 - Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 14:27 +0200, Blacktate wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 00:45 +0000, TBlack wrote:
Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 640). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings Warning: Last died with error (see error log for more information): Auth process died too early - shutting down Look at the logs for the exact reason why auth process died. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging The error log, each time I try to start Dovecot from a command line, has
21/06/2008 3.57 - Timo Sirainen wrote: these two lines appended:
dovecot: Jun 21 12:16:23 Error: Socket already exists: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server dovecot: Jun 21 12:16:24 Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down
If you delete the dict-server socket and start Dovecot again, does it then show anything else except the "Auth process died" message?
No, it shows just that: "Auth process died too early - shutting down".
Following the december 2007 thread between you and Ronny:
http://dovecot.markmail.org/search/?q=cygwin+2nd
...I tried to start dovecot via inetd rather than command line, and now I seem to be stuck at exactly the same point. Dovecot starts, but when I telnet localhost 143 I see:
Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Fatal: EOF while reading environment from master Connection closed by foreign host.
I think these are the exact same problems. Dovecot master dies and imap-login sees that.
By the way, if I restart inetd and try to telnet again I get this (just like Ronny):
Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Fatal: write_full(master_fd) failed: Transport endpoint is not connected Connection closed by foreign host.
I guess it doesn't figure out that master has died and doesn't try to restart it.
Now, was there anything to try at this point? The old thread just stopped here.. :-(
It sounds like dovecot-auth process dies with exit status 0. See if it logs anything with the attached patch.
Patch, make, replace the dovecot-auth executable, start inetd, telnet localhost: just the same error ("EOF while reading..."). The error log shows:
dovecot: Jun 21 15:51:53 Error: child 9904 (auth) returned error 53 dovecot: Jun 21 15:51:53 Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down
I can't seem to find the new log statements anywhere. They appear only if I start dovecot-auth directly, ant it fails like this:
Info: starting dovecot-auth dovecot-auth: Fatal: MECHANISMS environment is unset
If it helps, echoing its return value (echo $?) gives 89.
Angelo