Hi,

I have a lot of errors like this in my log: Fatal: master: service(imap): child 26049 killed with signal 11 (core dumped)

Dovecot 2.2.18 build from sources ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot2 --with-mysql --with-sqlite --with-solr --with-ssl --disable-rpath --disable-static. Debian Wheezy 3.2.63-2 x86_64. Filesystem is ZFS.

All the core files are similar: $ gdb /opt/dovecot2/libexec/dovecot/imap core GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.1-debian Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /opt/dovecot2/libexec/dovecot/imap...done. [New LWP 11635]

warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `/opt/dovecot2/libexec/dovecot/imap imap-postlogin'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 imap_bodystructure_is_plain_7bit (part=part@entry=0x234cd50) at imap-bodystructure.c:458

458 if (data->content_subtype != NULL && (gdb) bt #0 imap_bodystructure_is_plain_7bit (part=part@entry=0x234cd50) at imap-bodystructure.c:458 #1 0x00007f920a0fbfaf in index_mail_body_parsed_cache_flags (mail=0x234be60) at index-mail.c:587 #2 index_mail_parse_body_finish (mail=mail@entry=0x234be60, field=field@entry=MAIL_CACHE_IMAP_BODYSTRUCTURE, success=success@entry=true) at index-mail.c:1007 #3 0x00007f920a0fc369 in index_mail_parse_body (mail=mail@entry=0x234be60, field=field@entry=MAIL_CACHE_IMAP_BODYSTRUCTURE) at index-mail.c:1081 #4 0x00007f920a0fc498 in index_mail_parse_bodystructure (mail=mail@entry=0x234be60, field=field@entry=MAIL_CACHE_IMAP_BODYSTRUCTURE) at index-mail.c:1222 #5 0x00007f920a0fcf1c in index_mail_get_special (_mail=_mail@entry=0x234be60, field=field@entry=MAIL_FETCH_IMAP_BODYSTRUCTURE, value_r=value_r@entry=0x7ffc1518fde8) at index-mail.c:1379 #6 0x00007f920a0b29cd in dbox_mail_get_special (_mail=_mail@entry=0x234be60, field=field@entry=MAIL_FETCH_IMAP_BODYSTRUCTURE, value_r=value_r@entry=0x7ffc1518fde8) at dbox-mail.c:229 #7 0x00007f920a0a83f0 in mdbox_mail_get_special (_mail=0x234be60, field=MAIL_FETCH_IMAP_BODYSTRUCTURE, value_r=0x7ffc1518fde8) at mdbox-mail.c:213 #8 0x00007f920a08f96d in mail_get_special (mail=<optimized out>, field=field@entry=MAIL_FETCH_IMAP_BODYSTRUCTURE, value_r=value_r@entry=0x7ffc1518fde8) at mail.c:317 #9 0x0000000000419a6a in fetch_bodystructure (ctx=0x232bbd8, mail=<optimized out>, context=<optimized out>) at imap-fetch.c:690 #10 0x0000000000419f9f in imap_fetch_more_int (ctx=ctx@entry=0x232bbd8, cancel=false) at imap-fetch.c:506 #11 0x000000000041af07 in imap_fetch_more (ctx=0x232bbd8, cmd=cmd@entry=0x232ba00) at imap-fetch.c:558 #12 0x000000000040f0c9 in cmd_fetch (cmd=0x232ba00) at cmd-fetch.c:286 #13 0x0000000000418aec in command_exec (cmd=cmd@entry=0x232ba00) at imap-commands.c:167 #14 0x0000000000417ad0 in client_command_input (cmd=cmd@entry=0x232ba00) at imap-client.c:814 #15 0x0000000000417b64 in client_command_input (cmd=0x232ba00) at imap-client.c:874 #16 0x0000000000417e45 in client_handle_next_command (remove_io_r=<synthetic pointer>, client=0x232ade0) at imap-client.c:912 #17 client_handle_input (client=client@entry=0x232ade0) at imap-client.c:924 #18 0x0000000000418212 in client_input (client=0x232ade0) at imap-client.c:966 #19 0x00007f9209df134b in io_loop_call_io (io=0x232b8f0) at ioloop.c:501 #20 0x00007f9209df1e5b in io_loop_handler_run_internal (ioloop=ioloop@entry=0x22ec790) at ioloop-epoll.c:220 #21 0x00007f9209df13d9 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=ioloop@entry=0x22ec790) at ioloop.c:548 #22 0x00007f9209df1458 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x22ec790) at ioloop.c:525 #23 0x00007f9209d92993 in master_service_run (service=0x22ec620, callback=callback@entry=0x421140 <client_connected>) at master-service.c:581 #24 0x000000000040c60b in main (argc=2, argv=0x22ec390) at main.c:431 (gdb) q

I wrote a patch which solved the problem but:

• my C is absolutely basic,
• dovecot is already at version 2.2.30, maybe problem was already fixed. Anyway I attached my patch, please have a look.

Thanks.