Dovecot 2.3.10 fails to start due to missing dependency

[Aki Tuomi]

Can you show

journalctl -xe

and

systemctl status dovecot-init

and 

/var/log/messages

Aki

> On 21/04/2020 06:02 Jacob Shea <jacob at a1elitesolutions.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> ----
> Any help or suggestions are appreciated.
> Sincerely,
> Jacob S.
>