Hello, we found dovecot down on one of our servers, with this error in the log:
dovecot: 2009-07-14 04:05:04 Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration dovecot: 2009-07-14 04:05:04 Error: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now dovecot: 2009-07-14 04:05:04 Fatal: listen(143) failed: Interrupted system call
we can reproduce this error with this tight loop:
while date ; do kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) ; sleep 15s ; done
after a while dovecot dies with the above error message.
We are using
# dovecot --version 1.0.15
in particular, Debian package with version "1:1.0.15-2.3" .
This started since yesterday, when we upgraded to the latest Debian Lenny point release.
The situation is rather problematic, and we'd like to here from you if there something we can do to fix it; if there's something you'd like us to do, just ask :)
Thanks in advance, Sandro