[Dovecot] file client-common.c: line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0)

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 4:20 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote:

> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 18:29 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>>> dovecot: Mar 12 16:57:37 Panic: imap-login: file client-common.c:  
>>> line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0)
>> How common is this? Does it keep happening all the time now, or is  
>> it in
>> random bursts?
>> Just before this error there should have been also a "Disconnected"  
>> or
>> "Logged in" message logged. Do you see them? What are they?
>
> Well the problem seemed to be self solved ...
> nothing more into logfile ...
>
> it happened several time a day , not very often maybe a problem
> with some email client ?
>
> I'm gonna watch forward those coming days

If you're using Linux, with Dovecot v1.1.12+ you can add -D parameter  
to login_executable and you should be able to get core dumps from imap- 
login processes. core dumps would be helpful in solving this.