[Dovecot] Managesieve: Remote login fails

[Stephan Bosch]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> I tried to get a coredump with the infromation an the provided
>> web-page. However i never got a dump.
> 
> You can't get core dumps easily from login processes. 
Oh d'oh, that is true. I always do the gdb trace trick. Maybe we should
document this.

> The easiest way to get a backtrace is:
> 
> 1. Set login_processes_count = 1
> 2. Restart Dovecot and make sure you have only a single
> managesieve-login process.
> 3. gdb -p `pidof managesieve-login`
> 4. Give "c" command to gdb.
> 5. Log in, causing the crash
> 6. gdb should have now stopped, give it "bt full" command.
You can also use netstat -plan to see which of the managesieve processes
you are connected to (then there is no need to change your config).
There should be one ESTABLISHED connection to a managesieve-login
originating from your host. The number listed before process name (i.e.
managesieve-login) is the pid needed for gdb.

>> I used the packages provided by "deb http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/
>> testing-auto main". I don't know if these contain the debugging
>> symbols. So it seems i can't provide any further information.
> 
> Even without debugging symbols you should be able to get some kind of a
> backtrace.
If you build the package from source, you can easily force it to compile
with debug symbols. Open the debian/rules file and deactivate (remove or
comment) the line 'dh_strip -a' in the build-arch make rule (line 130).
(There is probably a nicer way using environment variables, but I never
cared to find out how).

Regards,

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Stephan Bosch
stephan at rename-it.nl