Upgrade to 2.2.32 from 2.2.15 failed

[Aki Tuomi]

> On November 25, 2017 at 7:04 AM Mark Foley <mfoley at ohprs.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I have a problem. I have been running Dovecot 2.2.15 and I'd like to upgrade. My distro
> (Slackware) has dovecot 2.2.32 available. I downloaded and installed that, but it didn't work.
> No one was able to get messages from the dovecot server on their workstations. The following is
> the entire dovecot log file from startup to the last message generated. No more messages went
> into the logfile after line 76, even with clients trying to connect. The 174.233.134.88 IP is
> from an external user connecting from his iPhone. The normal successful message from this user
> are shown at bottom.
> 
> I'm suspecting something to do with line 18 where is says "Auth process broken." If anyone has
> any insight I'd deeply appreciate it as I'd love to upgrade.
> 
> THX -- Mark
>

Can you try adding

service auth {
  executable = strace -o /tmp/auth.trace /usr/libexec/dovecot/auth
}

and see if it gives any insight why it dies?

Aki