If systemd doesn't recognize that service has started, that mean probably pid file has other location than previously. You can check what systemd is doing via strace:
strace -s 1024 systemctl start dovecot
W dniu 17 kwi 2021, 19:39, o 19:39, użytkownik Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de> napisał:
Hello *,
I have upgraded today a Debian buster (stable) system to bullseye (still testing). After upgrade I did a complete reboot of the VM.
Dovecot version changed from 1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u6 to 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-1
systemctl start dovecotnow complains Job for dovecot.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.As a workaround I set "TimeoutStartSec=infinity" in dovecot.service. But
systemctl statusnow says:Active: activating (start) since Sat 2021-04-17 17:53:58 CEST; 1h 23min ago
Dovecot itself is working fine without problems. LMTP accepts new mails and IMAP works. It's just that systemd doestn't notice it running.
Any idea what causes this?
Config is unchanged from the working 2.3.4.1 system.
# doveconf -n # 2.3.13 (89f716dc2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.13 (cdd19fe3) # OS: Linux 5.10.0-6-cloud-amd64 x86_64 Debian bullseye/sid # Hostname: daedalus.z-51.de auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_ssl_username_from_cert = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain default_vsz_limit = 2 G first_valid_uid = 8 import_environment = TZ last_valid_uid = 8 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c ssl_security=%k login_trusted_networks = 127.0.0.1 ::1 mail_gid = mail mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = acl zlib quota fts fts_xapian mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = mail maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded- character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%Lu /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 fts = xapian fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_exclude = \Junk fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Trash fts_xapian = partial=3 full=20 attachments=0 verbose=0 imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/var/mail/sieve/report-spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Spam imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/var/mail/sieve/report-ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Spam imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/mail/sieve/before.sieve sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.execute sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /var/mail/sieve sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms sieve_redirect_envelope_from = recipient sieve_vacation_default_period = 1d stats_refresh = 30 secs stats_track_cmds = yes } postmaster_address = postmaster@z-51.de protocols = " imap lmtp sieve" service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = Debian-exim mode = 0777 user = Debian-exim } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = Debian-exim mode = 0777 user = Debian-exim } vsz_limit = 2 G } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service indexer-worker { vsz_limit = 0 } service lmtp { user = mail } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 4190 } service_count = 1 } service managesieve { process_limit = 1024 } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0600 user = mail } unix_listener stats-writer { user = mail } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/daedalus.z-51.de/fullchain.pem ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes userdb { args = username_format=%Lu /etc/dovecot/users default_fields = uid=mail gid=mail home=/var/mail/%d/%n driver = passwd-file } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { auth_username_format = %Lu mail_plugins = acl zlib quota fts fts_xapian sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = acl zlib quota fts fts_xapian sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl zlib quota fts fts_xapian imap_zlib imap_acl imap_quota imap_sieve }