Dovecot v2.2.25 crashed on startup in Mac OSX

[Edgar Pettijohn]

I think they fixed it in git, but probably didn't apply it to 2.2.25. I would recommend trying the latest from git.

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> On Jul 27, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Michael Chen <michael.chen at rivetlogic.com> wrote:
> 
> I built from dovecot-2.2.25.tar.gz on Mac OSX 10.11.15 (El Capitan) the
> usual way:
> 
>    CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib ./configure
>    make
>    sudo make install
>    sudo /usr/local/sbin/dovecot
> 
> It consistently crash on startup with the following entries in
> /var/log/mail.log (edited backtrace):
> 
> Jul 27 07:39:26 macbook-pro dovecot[70234]: master: Dovecot v2.2.25
> (7be1766) starting up for imap, pop3, lmtp
> Jul 27 07:39:26 macbook-pro dovecot[70234]: master: Panic: kevent(EV_ADD,
> READ, 60) failed: Bad file descriptor
> Jul 27 07:39:26 macbook-pro dovecot[70234]: master: Error: Raw backtrace:
>    2   libdovecot.0.dylib                  0x00000001000dc3fb
> default_fatal_finish + 43
> -> 3   libdovecot.0.dylib                  0x00000001000dd4e0
> syslog_handler + 0
> -> 4   dovecot                             0x0000000100026f8d
> master_fatal_callback + 429
> -> 5   libdovecot.0.dylib                  0x00000001000dca9f i_panic + 415
> -> 6   libdovecot.0.dylib                  0x00000001000ff022
> io_loop_handle_add + 194
> -> 7   libdovecot.0.dylib                  0x00000001000fb5f1 io_add_file
> + 385
> -> 8   libdovecot.0.dylib                  0x00000001000fb456 io_add + 118
> -> 9   libdovecot.0.dylib                  0x0000000100102b83
> lib_signals_set_handler + 355
> -> 10  dovecot                             0x0000000100027070 main_init +
> 112
> -> 11  dovecot                             0x0000000100026628 main + 2024
> -> 12  libdyld.dylib                       0x00007fff889ac5ad start + 1
> 
> 
> It looks similar to this report:
> 
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/86319/match=panic+kevent
> 
> HomeBrew installed 2.2.24, and it works in my Mac. Can someone confirm this
> is a bug?
> 
> I also built 2.2.25 with debug, but can't make it break at line
> iolook-kqueue.c:67
> 
>    i_panic("kevent(EV_ADD, READ, %d) failed: %m", io->fd);
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --mc
> .
> 
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> 
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