[Dovecot] Panic: file mail-index-transaction-export.c: line 203 (log_append_ext_hdr_update): assertion failed: (u32.offset + u32.size <= ext_hdr_size)

[Andy Dills]

Thanks to the suggestion by Larry off-list, I snagged an official patch 
from the FreeBSD PR and now the ports are compiling cleanly.

I'll report back if I get the errors again.

Thanks,
Andy

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Andy Dills
Xecunet, Inc.
www.xecu.net
301-682-9972
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On 05/30/2014 15:34, Andy Dills wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> We recently upgraded to 2.2.12 (the current version in FreeBSD's port
> tree), and are seeing these errors in our logs (not super frequently,
> but it happens):
> 
> May 30 13:20:57 mail1 kernel: pid 15752 (imap), uid 1005: exited on
> signal 6
> May 30 13:20:57 mail1 dovecot: imap(xxx): Fatal: master: service(imap):
> child 15752 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - set service imap {
> drop_priv_before_exec=yes })
> 
> I tried manually upgrading to 2.2.13, on the off chance that was fixed,
> but I couldn't get the new pigeonhole (0.4.3) to compile once I did
> (perhaps why the FreeBSD port maintainer hasn't updated yet?).
> 
> Suggestions? Right now we just check every couple of hours for affected
> users, and then delete all of the dovecot files for the affected user,
> which ends the error.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
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> 
> Andy Dills
> Xecunet, Inc.
> www.xecu.net
> 301-682-9972
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