Dovecot 2.3.10 fails to start due to missing dependency

Jacob Shea jacob at a1elitesolutions.com
Tue Apr 21 20:53:17 EEST 2020


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Aki,

I pasted all you requested to Pastebin.com

https://pastebin.com/fVLD495y

Thank you for your assistance,

- Jacob


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On 4/21/20 2:43 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> Can you show
>
> journalctl -xe
>
> and
>
> systemctl status dovecot-init
>
> and
>
> /var/log/messages
>
> Aki
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>> 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.
>>



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