Hi,

I have a lot of Panic in my logs. They happen almost every day and never on the same user. When it happens, the mail is not distributed (it's always lda). I discovered it because my Sympa server had a lot of users in error. The last error (below) was a local user sending a mail to 10 users : 3 of them never get the email.

I've looked into my logs and discovered it started after the upgrade from 2.2.27 to 2.3.4 in february. I'm on Debian.

This week, I installed the dovecot repo and upgraded to the very last and same thing. The error below happened after the latest upgrade.

An example :

Nov 25 11:33:07 mx.igf.cnrs.fr dovecot: lda(username_hidden)<4653><A3S4MuIyvl8tEgAAmSH/vg>: Panic: file istream-seekable.c: line 230 (read_from_buffer): assertion failed: (*ret_r > 0) Nov 25 11:33:07 mx.igf.cnrs.fr dovecot: lda(sebastien.granier)<4653><A3S4MuIyvl8tEgAAmSH/vg>: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x3d) [0x7f49a56d4eed] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x1e) [0x7f49a56d500e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xf465b) [0x7f49a56de65b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xf46c1) [0x7f49a56de6c1] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x514a6) [0x7f49a563b4a6] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x53cfb) [0x7f49a563dcfb] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1074a1) [0x7f49a56f14a1] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1078f6) [0x7f49a56f18f6] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_stat+0x34) [0x7f49a56eaab4] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb1396) [0x7f49a5852396] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb1472) [0x7f49a5852472] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_get_physical_size+0x38) [0x7f49a57ef0c8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so.0(+0x4005) [0x7f49a5907005] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so.0(mail_deliver_init+0x141) [0x7f49a5908101] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(main+0x879) [0x562d1c0e6f99] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xeb) [0x7f49a543e09b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(_start+0x2a) [0x562d1c0e76ea]

My configuration : dovecot -n # 2.3.11.3 (502c39af9): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.11 (6c69c917) # OS: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.6 # Hostname: mx.igf.cnrs.fr auth_username_format = disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_location = maildir:~/maildir mail_plugins = fts mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Ads { auto = subscribe } mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = . type = private } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /etc/dovecot/sieve.d } protocols = " imap sieve pop3 sieve" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 16 service_count = 0 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = dovecot mode = 0666 user = root } unix_listener stats-writer { group = dovecot mode = 0666 user = root } } ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/certs/mx_igf_cnrs_fr_with_CA.crt ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it syslog_facility = local2 userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lda { mail_plugins = fts sieve syslog_facility = local2 }

Thanks,

-- Eric Mauger | Administrateur système et réseau IGF UMR5203 | https://www.igf.cnrs.fr