Hi all,
When trying to set up dovecot, I somehow managed to get a segfault. Trying to launch dovecot from command line (simply execute 'dovecot') results in the error message: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Trying dovecot -n results in pretty much the same: # 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Looking at syslog, I see doveconf[3676]: segfault at 200 ip 00007fbb93c4fcb3 sp 00007fff005b4c10 error 4 in libc-2.19.so[7fbb93c04000+1bc000]
I tried but couldn't find the core dump anywhere on the server. Any help on this would be appreciated too.
I (trying to ) run it with postfix, on an Ubuntu 14.04 (Linux mail2.arturia.com 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux), brand new server. What troubles me even more is that I just set up successfully another mail server a week ago, with the same configuration (diffing the conf folders) except for log or mailbox paths (driver and stuff are the same).
In the google search I've done, I saw some stuff about openssl: both servers are running 1.0.1f, since one is running fine, I guess this is not the culprit.
One difference I noticed between the two servers is that on the failing one, there is no /var/run/dovecot. I presume this folder and its files are created once dovecot is launched, so that's why it's not present, and is only a symptom of the failure, not a cause?
Thanks for your help, and please tell me what other information I could provide to help.
Simon