[Dovecot] dovecot crashes on start

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 03:09, Timothy wrote:
> I wasn't able to find anything about this on the site that could give me 
> a definite answer, but when I start dovecot it dies immediately.  The 
> following is left in the logs.
> 
> dovecot: Oct 06 20:59:30 Info: Dovecot starting up
> dovecot: Oct 06 20:59:32 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down
> pop3-login: Oct 06 20:59:32 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe

Doesn't it say why auth process died? It should say at least something..
Such as a crash..

> I thought this might have something to do with chrooting so I tried to 
> disable all of that in the configuration.  After that did not work I 
> rebuilt dovecot with minimal configure options (compared to what I used 
> originally) and used a stock configuration changing only the certificate 
> locations so that dovecot would not complain about the certificates 
> missing, still no luck and the same error. 

So your auth_userdb = passwd and auth_passdb = pam?

>  I've tried using strace on 
> dovecot but it seems like it hardly ever hangs/dies at the same point. 
> I'm trying to run this on a slackware 9.0 linux based machine.  Any 
> suggestions?

I could take a look at one of the straces. And give the -f parameter to
it.