Dovecot 2.3.10 fails to start due to missing dependency

Jacob Shea jacob at a1elitesolutions.com
Tue Apr 21 06:02:23 EEST 2020


Greetings,

I installed Dovecot 2.3.10 on my Centos 7.7.1908 server, however it 
fails startup. This is a fresh/default install, meaning all the configs 
are default, downloaded from the dovecot.repo.

Here is my PasteBin: https://pastebin.com/376UQFLs

### Error Log, copied from Journalctl print out ###
Apr 20 21:10:01 server101 systemd[1]: Started Session 955 of user root.
Apr 20 21:10:01 server101 CROND[8057]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)
Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 polkitd[1293]: Registered Authentication Agent 
for unix-process:8065:44125203 (system bus name :1.2058 
[/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback], object path 
/org/freedesktop/Polic
Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Starting One-time Dovecot init 
service...
Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: dovecot-init.service: main process 
exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Failed to start One-time Dovecot 
init service.
Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Dovecot 
IMAP/POP3 email server.
Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Job dovecot.service/start failed 
with result 'dependency'.
Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Unit dovecot-init.service entered 
failed state.
Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: dovecot-init.service failed.
Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 polkitd[1293]: Unregistered Authentication 
Agent for unix-process:8065:44125203 (system bus name :1.2058, object 
path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8
lines 6106-6158/6158 (END)
### Linux Server Version ###
[root at server101 log]# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)
### Dovecot Version ###
Installed Packages
Name        : dovecot
Arch        : x86_64
Epoch       : 2
Version     : 2.3.10
Release     : 2
Size        : 15 M
Repo        : installed
 From repo   : dovecot-2.3-latest
Summary     : Secure imap and pop3 server
URL         : http://www.dovecot.org/
License     : MIT and LGPLv2
Description : Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, 
written with security
             : primarily in mind.  It also contains a small POP3 server. 
  It supports mail
             : in either of maildir or mbox formats.
             :

             : The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are in their 
subpackages.

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Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

Sincerely,

Jacob S.

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