[Dovecot] Initial status notification not received

[Nicolas KOWALSKI]

Hello,

Has anybody some suggestions about the problem below?

I see in the archives 
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/67077) that someone 
also has (had?) this problem; a cronjob workaround was used, but no 
dovecot solution was given.

Thanks,
Nicolas


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:12:59PM +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have SLES-11 SP2 Xen VMs running dovecot as IMAP proxies. At VMs 
> startup, dovecot almost always shows these errors:
> 
> Nov 16 14:29:19 server dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.1.10 starting up (core dumps disabled)
> Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process
> Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(log): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process
> Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(ssl-params): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process
> Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(log): child 3591 killed with signal 9
> 
> As the last line tells, dovecot stops logging information. We have to 
> restart the dovecot processes to get back normal behaviour. I also tried 
> to set idle_kill values to services definitions, without success.
> 
> Is there a way to prevent these errors?
> 
> 
> Here is the dovecot -n output:
> 
> # 2.1.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 3.0.42-0.7-xen x86_64 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 
> (x86_64)
> default_client_limit = 4096
> default_idle_kill = 5 mins
> default_process_limit = 16384
> listen = 10.254.251.18
> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave
> namespace inbox {
>   inbox = yes
>   location =
>   mailbox Drafts {
>     special_use = \Drafts
>   }
>   mailbox Junk {
>     special_use = \Junk
>   }
>   mailbox Sent {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox Trash {
>     special_use = \Trash
>   }
>   prefix =
> }
> passdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
>   driver = ldap
> }
> plugin {
>   sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
>   sieve_dir = ~/sieve
> }
> protocols = imap sieve
> service anvil {
>   client_limit = 65536
>   idle_kill = 0
> }
> service auth {
>   client_limit = 32768
> }
> service imap-login {
>   inet_listener imap {
>     port = 0
>   }
> }
> service imap {
>   process_limit = 0
> }
> service log {
>   idle_kill = 0
> }
> service managesieve {
>   process_limit = 0
> }
> service ssl-params {
>   idle_kill = 0
> }
> ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/ssl/ca.pem
> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/server-crt.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/server-key.pem
> userdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
>   driver = ldap
> }
> protocol sieve {
>   passdb {
>     args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-sieve.conf.ext
>     driver = ldap
>   }
> }
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Nicolas

-- 
Nicolas