[Dovecot] locking fails

[Oskar Eyb]

hello!


on one of my servers (freebsd 7.0-R , Jail) I have a very strange problem


I guess its something about LOCKing.


some programs have issued with locking:


saslauthd[38127] :main            : could not lock pid lock file: /var/run/saslauthd/saslauthd.pid.lock
saslauthd[38127] :main            : fcntl: Invalid argument




dovecot: 2009-05-29 03:45:50 Info: dovecot v1.1.15 starting up
dovecot: 2009-05-29 03:45:50 Info: Generating Diffie-Hellman parameters for the first time. This may take a while..
dovecot: 2009-05-29 03:45:50 Error: ssl-build-param: fcntl(write-lock) locking failed for file /var/db/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat.tmp: Invalid argument
dovecot: 2009-05-29 03:45:50 Fatal: ssl-build-param: file_try_lock(/var/db/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat.tmp) failed: Invalid argument





deliver(user at example.com): 2009-05-29 03:43:24 Error: fcntl(write-lock) locking failed for file /data/maildirs/example.com/user/dovecot.index.log: Invalid argument

deliver(user at example.com): 2009-05-29 03:43:24 Error: mail_index_wait_lock_fd() failed with file /data/maildirs/example.com/user/dovecot.index.log: Invalid argument

deliver(user at example.com): 2009-05-29 03:43:24 Info: msgid=<BLU129-W212F3C73CDDC4C399CE338FD510 at phx.gbl>: save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-05-29 03:43:24]


-rw-------  1 vmail  vmail  24 May 29 03:43 /data/maildirs/example.com/user/dovecot.index.log


all directorys are existent and wirtable


I`m not sure if this only affects dovecot..maybe its a issue caused of the OS.

anyone an idea?
maybe its possible to run dovecot without these locking?


thanks!!


Oskar

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