[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0.beta6 dies when I try to delete a folder with thunderbird

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Jul 10 21:18:25 EEST 2010


On 10.7.2010, at 19.11, Sven Kirmess wrote:

>> 3. gdb -p `pidof imap`
>> cont
>> 4. make it crash
>> 5. gdb should now have stopped, and you can give "bt" command.
> 
> 
> I can't make it crash. As soon as I attach gdb to the process it
> doesn't do anything. It just hangs.

You need to give gdb the "cont" command after attaching to it.

> ROOT at azati:dovecot> /opt/gdb/bin/gdb -p 10682
..
> 0xfecea5b5 in ?? ()

Also looks like gdb -p isn't working properly. You need to instead use

gdb /path/to/imap pid



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