[dovecot] 0.99.9.1 - Runaway imap-login process

[Warren Togami]

PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
32116 dovecot   19   0  1464 1464  1212 R    99.9  0.1  60:58   0
imap-login

service dovecot stop
ps -ef |grep imap-login |grep -v grep
dovecot  32116     1 98 01:27 ?        01:01:33 imap-login


/etc/dovecot.conf:
auth_userdb = passwd
uth_passdb = pam

I think this was triggered while I attempted to login to IMAP with the
this dovecot configuration without adding an "imap" entry to /etc/pam.d/
(auth fails).  When I attempt to strace -p this runaway process, it
strangely displays nothing.  kill was able to get rid of it.  After I
added an appropriate /etc/pam.d/imap entry, auth works and I didn't see
this runaway process.

This is a RH9 chroot server instance running within Linux virtual server
with security contexts kernel.  (Think of it as a theoretically
unbreakable chroot.)

Any tips on what I can do to get some debugging information out of this?

Thanks,
Warren Togami
warren at togami.com