On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:57:48PM +0100, Chris Wakelin wrote:
I think 0.99.20050712 is 1.0-stable (presumably from 12th July). See
Oh, yes, it is. I should have wondered more about that date-coded version number.
I installed the unstable packages on my sarge, got
dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql'googled that to mean mysql wasn't compiled in, decided that was unlikely, modified the config files since there were changes, and now /etc/init.d/dovecot starts OK but the process dies immediately, logging
dovecot: Aug 03 17:59:33 Error: child 28322 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Aug 03 17:59:33 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down
And googling that I find
http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-June/007661.htmlwhere Timo says
% I think this was because of some missing or wrong that I fixed % 1.0-test but not in 1.0-stable.. Could you get gdb backtrace % of this so I can finally fix it? :)
So maybe it's not some kind of library problem due to my installing sid packages on sarge?
No further mails on the subject that I can see, and that mail is dated one month before the date of compilation of the dovecot I'm running (well, trying to ;-)), so maybe this will be useful:
(gdb) bt #0 0x401a51b0 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0x0805b0f5 in parse_setting_from_defs () #2 0x08051e53 in db_ldap_unref () #3 0x0805b586 in settings_read () #4 0x08051f10 in db_sql_init () #5 0x08059baf in userdb_deinit () #6 0x080590e2 in userdb_preinit () #7 0x0805292c in main ()
Going from dovecot-stable-latest.tar.gz (can't find any versions from June), that seems to be in ./lib-settings/settings.c dated Jan 31 2005 so it hasn't changed since my version was compiled,
for (def = defs; def->name != NULL; def++) {
if (strcmp(def->name, key) == 0) {which would mean that either def->name or key is corrupted (I suppose that's unlikely) or key is NULL, I was called from db_ldap_unref . . . and that's where I'll bomb out, because a) I don't see how db_ldap_unref calls parse_setting_from_defs, there seems to be a function passed as parameter that could explain it but that learning curve is a bit steep for me at 6:30PM, and b) I have *definitely* not configured ldap in dovecot.
Ideas? Config workaround?