Hi,

I pasted the logs in #dovecot already, but maybe someone here has a little bit more insight. I'm running dovecot cvs branch_1_0 from Sep. 16th. Dovecot is doing LDAP userdb/passdb and I'm using deliver for local deliveries.

Today my users complained about not being able to login anymore. I opened ssh to that box and found the following messages

Sep 20 15:58:03 vs02 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>, method=LOGIN, rip=::ffff:129.187.246.129, lip=::ffff:83.170.6.69 [ couple of mail deliveries using dovecot ] Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: IMAP(user1): Disconnected for inactivity Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: user=<user2>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:82.135.86.26, lip=::ffff:83.170.6.69 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: user=<user2>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:82.135.86.26, lip=::ffff:83.170.6.69 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: user=<user3>, method=LOGIN, rip=::ffff:83.170.6.71, lip=::ffff:83.170.6.69 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: user=<user4>, method=LOGIN, rip=::ffff:83.170.6.71, lip=::ffff:83.170.6.69 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: user=<user3>, method=LOGIN, rip=::ffff:83.170.6.71, lip=::ffff:83.170.6.69 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: user=<user5>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:84.151.241.209, lip=::ffff:83.170.6.69 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>, method=LOGIN, rip=::ffff:129.187.246.129, lip=::ffff:83.170.6.69 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: auth(default): Master request 27514.1 not found Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: auth(default): Master request 26788.1 not found Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: auth(default): Master request 27198.1 not found Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: auth(default): Master request 27470.1 not found Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: auth(default): Master request 26654.1 not found Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: pop3-login: Master sent reply with unknown tag 1 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: pop3-login: Master sent reply with unknown tag 1 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: imap-login: Master sent reply with unknown tag 1 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: pop3-login: Master sent reply with unknown tag 1 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: child 26654 (login) returned error 89 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: child 26788 (login) returned error 89 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: child 27198 (login) returned error 89 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: child 27470 (login) returned error 89 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: child 27514 (login) returned error 89 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: imap-login: Master sent reply with unknown tag 1 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: auth(default): Master request 27515.1 not found Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: imap-login: Master sent reply with unknown tag 1 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: child 27515 (login) returned error 89 Sep 20 16:38:03 vs02 dovecot: IMAP(user1): Disconnected Sep 20 16:38:04 vs02 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=::ffff:83.170.6.71, lip=::ffff:83.170.6.69 Sep 20 16:38:04 vs02 dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Sep 20 16:38:04 vs02 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=::ffff:83.170.6.71, lip=::ffff:83.170.6.69 Sep 20 16:38:04 vs02 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: rip=::ffff:84.151.241.209, lip=::ffff:83.170.6.69

after that the daemon apparently quit and was restarted automatically. No errors reoccured after that.

The box only has a few private users. xenU guest domain running a mix of amd64 Ubuntu dapper/edgy. This is the first problem I've seen in this setup.

Regards, Bernhard