[Dovecot] dies on start-up: Auth process

[Tom Allison]

Tom Allison wrote:
> Tom Allison wrote:
> 
>> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:07:25AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was digging through some of the archives and ran into someone who 
>>>> was having the same problem, but for completely different 
>>>> reasons....i think.
>>>>
>>>> dovecot: Nov 02 07:58:51 Info: Dovecot starting up
>>>> dovecot: Nov 02 07:58:52 Error: Auth process died too early - 
>>>> shutting down
>>>> dovecot: Nov 02 07:58:52 Error: child 27673 (login) killed with 
>>>> signal 11
>>>
>>>
> 
> I'm making some slow progress.
> It seemd to be better after I've added a configuration option for 
> cyrus-sasl2 support and set the auth_userdb = passwd.
> 
> It loads.
> 
> but logging in is another matter entirely.
> 
> I can't seem to authenticate.

Found the strace segment that has the response 'NO Authentication failed'

srw-rw-rw-    /var/run/.nscd_socket
drwxr-xr-x    /home/tallison/Maildir

My log shows:
imap-login: .. Warning Killed with signal 2


And I can use the user/passwd listed to login at the terminal and via 
SSH.  Don't worry, this is behind a firewall right now and this specific 
account will be converted to a spam-trap once I launch so I really don't 
care about having a password exposed right now.

I'm getting closer.....

[pid 32035] <... poll resumed> [{fd=3, 
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=0, 
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNV
AL}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=9, 
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN|
POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=11, 
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}], 6, 4367) = 1
[pid 32038] write(8, "\0tallison\0Appl3", 15 <unfinished ...>
[pid 32035] gettimeofday( <unfinished ...>
[pid 32038] <... write resumed> )       = 15
[pid 32035] <... gettimeofday resumed> {1067865382, 123624}, {300, 0}) = 0
[pid 32038] gettimeofday( <unfinished ...>
[pid 32035] read(10,  <unfinished ...>
[pid 32038] <... gettimeofday resumed> {1067865382, 123963}, NULL) = 0
[pid 32035] <... read resumed> 
"\2\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\17\0\0\0\0tallison\0Appl3", 4076) = 27
[pid 32038] poll( <unfinished ...>
[pid 32035] socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 12
[pid 32035] connect(12, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, 
path="/var/run/.nscd_socket"}, 110) = 0
[pid 32035] writev(12, [{"\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\t\0\0\0", 12}, {"tallison\0", 
9}], 2) = 21
[pid 32035] read(12, 
"L\'\33@\1\0\0\0\t\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\364\1\0\0d\0\0\0\f\0\0"..., 36) = 36
[pid 32035] read(12, "tallison\0x\0Tom Allison\0/home/tal"..., 48) = 48
[pid 32035] close(12)                   = 0
[pid 32035] write(10, "\1\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 20 
<unfinished ...>
[pid 32038] <... poll resumed> [{fd=8, 
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=3, 
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLER
R|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=7, 
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}], 3, 328) = 1
[pid 32035] <... write resumed> )       = 20
[pid 32038] gettimeofday({1067865382, 131212}, {300, 0}) = 0
[pid 32038] read(8, "\1\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 4068) = 20
[pid 32038] write(7, "1 NO Authentication failed.", 27) = 27
[pid 32038] write(7, "\r\n", 2)         = 2
[pid 32038] gettimeofday({1067865382, 132062}, NULL) = 0
[pid 32038] poll( <unfinished ...>
[pid 32035] gettimeofday({1067865382, 132352}, NULL) = 0
[pid 32035] poll( <unfinished ...>