[Dovecot] Defunct processes w/ v1.2.1

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 15:32 -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote:
> > What exactly is "all"? Do you mean just dovecot-auth processes, or do
> > you really mean everything, including imap-login, dovecot-auth, imap,
> > pop3, ..?
> > 
> > If it's only dovecot-auth processes, it's probably a PAM issue. If it's
> > more than dovecot-auth, is everything still anyway working?
> 
> It just happened again:
> 
> root      2904     1  0 14:32 ?        00:00:00 /local/bin/dovecot
> root      2907  2904  0 14:32 ?        00:00:00 dovecot-auth
> root      2919  2904  0 14:32 ?        00:00:00 dovecot-auth -w
> dovecot   7026  2904  0 15:02 ?        00:00:00 [imap-login <defunct>]
> [and many other imap-login processes, all defunct]

OK, so only imap-login processes are defunct.

> If I telnet to "imap", a connection is established but there is no
> greeting. 

But it anyway says "connected to localhost" and only after that hangs?

What does it say if you strace dovecot process?
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