Re: [Dovecot] fstat() errors on /srv/mail/<username>/dovecot.index.log

On 10/17/2013 05:25 AM, Noel Butler wrote:

On 17/10/2013 00:08, Zach La Celle wrote:

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Dovecot version 2.1.7 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Kernel 3.2.0-35-generic x86_64

I'm not sure exactly when this started occurring, but sporatically users report issues receiving email, having email saved to "Sent," etc. Looking in dovecot.log, I see the following errors:

2013-10-16 09:53:20 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27434, secured, session= 2013-10-16 09:53:20 imap(user1): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=93 out=846 2013-10-16 09:53:21 imap(user2): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=3616 out=495 2013-10-16 09:53:24 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user3>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27436, secured, session= 2013-10-16 09:53:24 imap(user3): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=93 out=819 2013-10-16 09:53:33 imap(user4): Error: fstat() failed with file /srv/mail/user4/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 2013-10-16 09:53:33 imap(user4): Error: fstat() failed with file /srv/mail/user4/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 2013-10-16 09:53:33 imap(user4): Error: fstat() failed with file /srv/mail/user4/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 2013-10-16 09:53:33 imap(user4): Error: fstat() failed with file /srv/mail/user4/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 2013-10-16 09:53:33 imap(user4): Error: fstat() failed with file /srv/mail/user4/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 2013-10-16 09:53:33 imap(user4): Error: fstat() failed with file /srv/mail/user4/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 2013-10-16 09:53:41 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user3>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27438, secured, session= 2013-10-16 09:53:41 imap(user3): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=93 out=819 2013-10-16 09:54:12 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27440, secured, session=<6bI5CdzoCQB/AAAB> 2013-10-16 09:54:12 imap(user1): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=93 out=846 2013-10-16 09:54:12 imap(user5): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=736 out=7064 2013-10-16 09:54:15 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user6>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27442, secured, session= 2013-10-16 09:54:15 imap(user6): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=95 out=902 2013-10-16 09:54:20 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27444, secured, session= 2013-10-16 09:54:20 imap(user1): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=93 out=846 2013-10-16 09:54:24 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user3>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=27446, secured, session= 2013-10-16 09:54:24 imap(user3): Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=93 out=819

These errors are not confined to a single user, and do not occur with the same frequency.

This isnt per chance on a NAS/SAN/DAS is it?

No, it is not on a SAN. I saw that thread a while back, but this doesn't seem to be related.

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I originally was running the Dovecot shipped with the default Ubuntu repositories (don't remember which version, but it was 1.*) and used a backport to upgrade to 2.1.7 to see if that fixed it. It did not.

Any ideas why this is happening?

gawd knows what debian (thats all ubuntu is, same package maintainers 99% of time) do to things, wouldnt be the first time they put out a package that was kaput from get go, so doveconf -n output will likely be required

I can provide "dovecot -n" output if this doesn't answer the question, but it might be an apparmor issue. We recently enabled apparmor protection, and it seems that it generated an ungodly amount of profiles in complain mode. So many, that it was causing issues with usage of the openssl library.

Putting it in to enforce mode seems like it might fix the problem. I'll post more information once this is confirmed or denied.