[Dovecot] kevent error (1.0.b7) - Is this a FreeBSD-only problem?

[Rong-En Fan]

On 5/8/06, Odhiambo WASHINGTON <wash at wananchi.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> The problem below has been reported, but I did not see any response!
>
>
> <cut>
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> | | I'm also seeing this bug while testing the forthcoming 1.0.b7 FreeBSD
> | | port under 6.1-PRERELEASE:
> | |
> | | Info: imap-login: Login: user=<wibble>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.0.2,
> | | lip=10.0.0.2, TLS
> | | dovecot: Error: IMAP(isometry): Unrecognized event: kevent {.ident =
> | | 2, .filter = 0xfffffffe, .flags = 0x0001, .fflags = 0x00000000, .data
> | | = 0x00004000}
> | | dovecot: Error: child 7254 (imap) killed with signal 6
>
> </cut>
>
>
> So, I am wondering if this a problem applying only to FreeBSD.
>
> When I downgrade to beta5, this problem is not there at all!!

According to the commit log, kqueue support is broken and is disabled
as default. You can reconfig it and reinstall:

cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot && make config all deinstall install

Regards,
Rong-En Fan