[Dovecot] setuid(5000) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Jon Baker]

Well, installing FC5 fixed it.  There must be some sort of a conflict  
somewhere with the beta7 version of Dovecot and another module I had  
running in FC4.

On Apr 24, 2006, at 7:58 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 23:42 -0500, Jon Baker wrote:
>> I have combed google for days searching for an answer to this but
>> cannot find anything anywhere, I'm hoping that posting to this list
>> will get me the solution.
>>
>> I have FC4 running dovecot v1.0.beta7 to serve my POP3 (I had to
>> install v1.0.beta7 because it's on a x86_64 and I need mysql
>> support).  It runs great for about two hours, after which I start
>> getting the resource temporarily unavailable error.  I can't get the
>> error to go away by restarting dovecot, the only way I can figure out
>> to do it is to restart the box.  This is terribly annoying... please
>> help!  Thanks!
>
> From setuid() man page:
>
>        EAGAIN The uid does not match the current uid and  uid   
> brings  process
>               over it's NPROC rlimit.
>
> Apparently somewhere is configured the maximum number of processes
> allowed.. Dovecot doesn't do that though, so I've really no idea  
> how to
> solve it. Maybe check with "ulimit -a" before starting Dovecot that
> there are no process count limits.
>
> Although since the error doesn't go away by restarting Dovecot, it
> sounds like something's badly broken in there. Have you checked how  
> many
> processes in general the system is running when this is happening?