If local Dovecot stops working, check lo

[Sven Hartge]

Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/12/14, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

>> experience with Debian Wheezy is that lo "goes down" a lot, so this
>> is one of the first things I do when odd stuff happens.

> Use a better operating system then, I've used at work and home, suse,
> opensuse, rhel, centos,  slackware and fedora, and never in my all my
> years of linux (I've used it since I was 14 and am mid twenties now)
> has loopback ever *gone away* unless i deliberately made it so.

And the same goes for Debian.

I have never in the last 16 years "lost" a loopback device out of the
blue.

If your lo "goes down" a lot, then there is something suspicious at foot
and this need to be investigated. This is not normal Debian behavior.

Grüße,
Sven.

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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.