Hello,
Am 29.05.2018 um 09:22 schrieb Aki Tuomi:
On 29.05.2018 09:54, Hajo Locke wrote:
Hello List,
i use dovecot 2.2.22 and have the same problem described here: https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2017-November/110020.html
I can confirm that sometimes there is a problem with connection to mysql-db, but sometimes not. Reasons for failing are still under investigation by my mates.
My current main problem is, that this fail seems to be a one way ticket for dovecot. Even if mysql is verifyable working again and waiting for connection dovecot stucks furthermore with errors like this:
May 29 07:00:49 hostname dovecot: auth: Error: plain(mail@example.com,xxx.xxx.xx.xxx,<HGI4FVFt2Oy80j3P>): Request 999.7 timed out after 150 secs, state=1
When restarting dovecot all is immediately working again. Is there a way to tell dovecot to restart auth services or reinitialize mysql-connection after these hard fails? I could insert "idle_kill = 1 mins" into service auth and service auth-worker, but i dont know if this would work. Unfortunately i am not able to reproduce this error and there are always a couple of days between errors.
Thanks, Hajo
Hi!
I was not able to repeat this problem using 2.2.36. Can you provide steps to reproduce?
May 29 10:20:24 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured session=XtpgEVNtQeUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB lip=::1 rip=::1 lport=143 rport=58689 resp=<hidden> May 29 10:20:24 auth-worker(31098): Debug: sql(test@domain.org,::1,<XtpgEVNtQeUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB>): query: SELECT userid AS username, domain, password FROM users WHERE userid = 'test' AND domain = 'domain.org' May 29 10:20:54 auth-worker(31098): Warning: mysql: Query failed, retrying: Lost connection to MySQL server during query (idled for 28 secs) May 29 10:20:59 auth-worker(31098): Error: mysql(127.0.0.1): Connect failed to database (dovecot): Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (4) - waiting for 5 seconds before retry May 29 10:21:04 auth-worker(31098): Error: mysql(127.0.0.1): Connect failed to database (dovecot): Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (4) - waiting for 5 seconds before retry May 29 10:21:14 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=31134) May 29 10:21:14 imap-login: Warning: Growing pool 'imap login commands' with: 1024 May 29 10:21:14 auth-worker(31098): Error: mysql(127.0.0.1): Connect failed to database (dovecot): Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (4) - waiting for 25 seconds before retry
This is what it looks like for me and after restoring connectivity, it started working normally.
Unfortunately i can not reproduce. Servers running well for days or sometimes weeks and then it happens one time. I can provide some more logs.
This is an error with mysql involvement:
May 29 06:56:59 hostname dovecot: auth-worker(1099): Error:
mysql(xx.xx.xx.xx): Connect failed to database (mysql): Can't connect to
MySQL server on 'xx.xx.xx.xx' (111) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry
.
. some more of above line
.
May 29 06:56:59 hostname dovecot: auth-worker(1110): Error:
sql(mail@example.com,xx.xx.xx.xx): Password query failed: Not connected
to database
May 29 06:56:59 hostname dovecot: auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted
PASSV request for mail@example.com: Internal auth worker failure
May 29 06:57:59 hostname dovecot: auth-worker(1099): Error: mysql: Query
timed out (no free connections for 60 secs): SELECT inbox as user,
password FROM mail_users WHERE login = 'username' AND active='Y'
May 29 06:59:30 hostname dovecot: auth: Error:
plain(username,xx.xx.xx.xx,<jc9yEFFtXcJXmx0F>): Request 999.2 timed out
after 151 secs, state=1
.
. much more of these lines with Request timed out
.
At this point my mates restartet dovecot and all worked well immediately. Mysql performed a short restart at 6:56 and dovecot was not able to reconnect for about 10 mins until my mates did the restart. I could not reproduce the problem by manually restarting of mysql, this worked well.
This is an error without visible mysql involvement:
.
. lines of normal imap/pop activity
.
May 29 05:43:03 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Error: master(imap): Auth
request timed out (received 0/12 bytes)
May 29 05:43:03 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure
(pid=1014 id=16814) (internal failure, 1 successful auths):
user=<username>, method=PLAIN, rip=xx.xx.xx.xx, lip=xx.xx.xx.xx, TLS
May 29 05:43:03 hostname dovecot: imap: Error: Login client disconnected
too early
May 29 05:44:03 hostname dovecot: auth: Error:
plain(username,xx.xx.xx.xx,<Wry1AlBt7couU7FV>): Request 1014.16815 timed
out after 150 secs, state=1
May 29 05:44:08 hostname dovecot: imap: Error: Auth server request timed
out after 155 secs (client-pid=1014 client-id=16814)
May 29 05:44:33 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity
during authentication (disconnected while authenticating, waited 180
secs): user=<>, method=PLAIN, rip=xx.xx.xx.xx, lip=xx.xx.xx.xx, TLS:
Disconnected
May 29 05:46:07 hostname dovecot: auth: Error:
plain(mail@example.com,xx.xx.xx.xx,
There is no errorlog in relation to mysql written by dovecot.
We use 2.2.22 because this version is provided with Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu Team is maintaining software and providing security patches, which happens 2017 and 2018 a couple of times. By manually compiling and using newer versions you have to check updates by yourself and you are forced to run every single update. Our goal is reliability which contradicts to use of bleeding edge software.
This is output of current doveconf -n
# 2.2.22 (fe789d2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.13 (7b14904) # OS: Linux 4.4.0-127-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@üÜöÖäÄ auth_worker_max_count = 60 disable_plaintext_auth = no imap_capability = +XLIST lock_method = flock login_greeting = mailserver ready. login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c mail_cache_min_mail_count = 30 mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_max_userip_connections = 30 mbox_read_locks = dotlock mbox_very_dirty_syncs = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archiv { auto = no special_use = } mailbox Drafts { auto = no special_use = } mailbox Junk { auto = no special_use = } mailbox Sent { auto = no special_use = } mailbox Trash { auto = no special_use = } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } service imap-login { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login process_min_avail = 1 service_count = 0 user = dovecot } service imap { process_limit = 1024 } service pop3-login { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login process_min_avail = 1 service_count = 0 user = dovecot } service pop3 { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 process_limit = 1024 } shutdown_clients = no ssl_ca =
I hope you have some hints. I dislike to monitor this with fail2ban and do hard restarts.
Aki
Thanks, Hajo