On Thursday 10 January 2008 05:24:01 Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 21:50 +0100, Daniel wrote:
Recently I've experienced problems with dovecot. Dovecot died silently, what means is that there are no core files, nor any indication in the log files, just the "kevent(): Invalid argument" messages.
Any of them begin with "Fatal: "? Why is it giving kevent() errors anyway? Those shouldn't happen. Yes, this is all I get in the error log, and then dovecot dies silently. It won't produce a core file, or any indication of dying in the log file. Btw, I'm using OpenBSD 4.2, and kqueue.
deliver(leva): Can't connect to auth server at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: Connection refused postfix/pipe[8582]: 8A1C6F261: to=leva@domain.hu, orig_to=<id>, relay=dovecot-lda, delay=1.7, delays=1.1/0/0/0 .68, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot-lda service) postfix/qmgr[29441]: 8A1C6F261: removed
See? Postfix removed it from the queue, so basically all bets are off, and everything depends on deliver, but it just dropped the message. Is there anything that can be done regarding this issue?
Are you using some pre-v1.0.0 release? With v1.0.10 it seems to work correctly:
I'm updating dovecot with hg from HEAD.
% echo foo|./deliver -d user
deliver(user): Jan 10 06:20:47 Error: Can't connect to auth server at /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory
Maybe my auth-master file remains there, but deliver couldn't connect to it, because dovecot has died. I guess the socket stayed there because dovecot couldn't clean up after itself in this case. Am I wrong (just guessing leastways...)?
% echo $? 75 % grep 75 /usr/include/sysexits.h #define EX_TEMPFAIL 75 /* temp failure; user is invited to retry */