[Dovecot] Lost login process PID XXXXX

[Patrick Linstruth]

Here's some additional information that might help.  These are the current
running processes:

$ ps -ax | grep dovecot
 2343  ??  Ss     0:02.99 dovecot
 2344  ??  Ss     0:02.97 dovecot
 2347  ??  S      0:02.17 dovecot-auth
 2348  ??  S      0:02.15 dovecot-auth
 7334  ??  Ss     0:12.98 dovecot
 7335  ??  S      0:05.90 dovecot-auth
 8090  ??  Ss     0:05.25 dovecot
 8094  ??  S      0:03.73 dovecot-auth
 8194  ??  Ss     0:02.49 dovecot
 8197  ??  S      0:01.74 dovecot-auth
 9381  ??  Ss     0:00.87 dovecot
 9382  ??  Ss     0:00.86 dovecot
 9385  ??  S      0:00.64 dovecot-auth
 9386  ??  S      0:00.62 dovecot-auth
17247  ??  Ss     0:00.41 dovecot
17250  ??  Ss     0:01.69 dovecot
17252  ??  S      0:00.28 dovecot-auth
17253  ??  S      0:01.71 dovecot-auth

Patrick Linstruth wrote:
> Dear List:
>
> We installed Dovecot v1.0.0 a couple days ago.
>
> After running the software for a couple days, the following happened:
>
> Jun  6 15:58:10 cello dovecot: POP3(sgtdohara): Disconnected: Logged out
> top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
> Jun  6 15:58:10 cello dovecot: POP3(dorene): Disconnected: Logged out
> top=0/0, retr=1/4652, del=1/1, size=4635
> Jun  6 15:58:10 cello dovecot: Lost login process PID 17214
> Jun  6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.0 starting up
> Jun  6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Socket already exists:
> /qnet/var/run/dovecot/dict-server
> Jun  6 15:58:12 cello dovecot:
> net_listen_unix(/qnet/var/run/dovecot/login/default) failed: Address
> already in use
> Jun  6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Couldn't create auth process listener
> Jun  6 15:58:12 cello dovecot:
> net_listen_unix(/qnet/var/run/dovecot/login/default) failed: Address
> already in use
> Jun  6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Couldn't create auth process listener
> Jun  6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
> Jun  6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
> Jun  6 15:58:13 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
> Jun  6 15:58:13 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
> Jun  6 15:58:14 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
> Jun  6 15:58:14 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
> Jun  6 15:58:14 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253
> doesn't exist
>
>
> The "Authentication process 17253 doesn't exist" message continued until
> I changed
> inetd.conf to run our old POP3/IMAP server.
>
> Server vitals:
>
> BSD/OS 4.2 BSDI BSD/OS 4.2 Kernel #2: Tue Feb 21 11:10:22 PST 2006
> 4:46PM  up 431 days, 16:40, 6 users, load averages: 1.19, 1.27, 1.02
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  We don't want to enable the software
> again until
> we know what caused the problem and hopefully find a solution to keep it
> from
> happening again.
>
> Patrick
>
>