Greetings.

I have been running Dovecot-1.0rc2 on a test server for the last couple of weeks. No problems. However, when I installed RC6 this morning, Dovecot refused to launch completely. Here's the relevant snippet from /var/log/maillog:

Aug 7 10:08:36 mercury dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc6 starting up
Aug 7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down
Aug 7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: child 26127 (login) killed with signal 11
Aug 7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: child 26128 (login) killed with signal 11

Both RC2 and RC6 compiled cleanly with "--with-pop3d". For reasons beyond my control, I have to set

protocols = imap pop3
disable_plaintext_auth = no
ssl_disable = yes

I do have a valid /etc/pam.d/dovecot file (we're using PAM). I made certain that the localized settings for /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf matched what they were in RC2 for RC6. (I did use the RC6 dovecot-example.conf as source for RC6, then made the local changes. I also tried testing RC6 with my old RC2 config file--same failure).

So, RC2 starts just fine. RC6 fails to start with the messages logged above. Can anyone give me any pointers? RHEL (Linux Kernel 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp), built from source, nothing out-of-the-ordinary. Right now, I've reverted back to RC2.

TIA.
S JList
sjlist@heidelberg.edu