Dovecot User Listing Error - getpwent() failed: Invalid Argument
Reuben Farrelly
reuben-dovecot at reub.net
Fri Aug 31 17:41:35 EEST 2018
Sure:
https://www.reub.net/files/dovecot/lightning-dovecot.conf
https://www.reub.net/files/dovecot/thunderstorm-dovecot.conf
Updated nightly.
Reuben
On 1/09/2018 12:26 am, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> Can you provide doveconf -n?
>
>
>
> ---
> Aki Tuomi
> Dovecot oy
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-dovecot at reub.net>
> Date: 31/08/2018 17:12 (GMT+02:00)
> To: Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi>, Dovecot Mailing List
> <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Subject: Re: Dovecot User Listing Error - getpwent() failed: Invalid
> Argument
>
> No. Neither of those are installed on either system.
>
> Reuben
>
> On 1/09/2018 12:09 am, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > Could apparmor or selinux be causing this!
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Aki Tuomi
> > Dovecot oy
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-dovecot at reub.net>
> > Date: 31/08/2018 16:50 (GMT+02:00)
> > To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> > Subject: Dovecot User Listing Error - getpwent() failed: Invalid Argument
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running dovecot-2.3 git and seeing on 2 of my Dovecot installations,
> > the following message logged quite frequently:
> >
> > Aug 31 16:55:53 lightning.reub.net dovecot[7698]: auth-worker(7707):
> > Error: getpwent() failed: Invalid argument
> > Aug 31 16:55:53 lightning.reub.net dovecot[7698]: replicator: Error:
> > User listing returned failure
> > Aug 31 16:55:53 lightning.reub.net dovecot[7698]: replicator: Error:
> > listing users failed, can't replicate existing data
> >
> > It appears that this could be having an effect on replication, but it's
> > unclear because the secondary/replica doesn't see much traffic.
> >
> > Authentication is via PAM and the system is Gentoo Linux x86_64. passb
> > driver = pam, userdb driver = static .
> >
> > doveadm user -u '*' shows the system users listed twice like this (is
> > this a problem?) and then prints:
> >
> > ----
> > reuben
> > liam
> > reuben
> > liam
> > <some other users>
> > Error: User listing returned failure
> > Fatal: user listing failed
> > ----
> >
> > To me that doesn't look right.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest what could be causing this? I don't recall seeing
> > this message some time ago so I suspect it's a recent change in either
> > dovecot, or pam or glibc etc..
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Reuben
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