[Dovecot] locking fails

[Timo Sirainen]

On May 29, 2009, at 3:46 AM, Oskar Eyb wrote:

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

No NFS or any other weird filesystem?

> I guess its something about 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 Error: ssl-build-param: fcntl(write- 
> lock) locking failed for file /var/db/dovecot/ssl- 
> parameters.dat.tmp: 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

Yeah. Clearly the fcntl locking isn't working. I've no idea why. Some  
FreeBSD list would probably be more helpful.