239535 – net-mail/dovecot-1.1.1-r1 should be started prior to mail-mta/postfix-2.5.5

Bug 239535 - net-mail/dovecot-1.1.1-r1 should be started prior to mail-mta/postfix-2.5.5

Summary: net-mail/dovecot-1.1.1-r1 should be started prior to mail-mta/postfix-2.5.5

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Server (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages

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Reported:	2008-10-04 13:55 UTC by Roland Ramthun
Modified:	2009-09-10 17:24 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Roland Ramthun 2008-10-04 13:55:46 UTC

If you use dovecot's SASL with postfix, smtpd cant be started, because of a missing socket.

dovecot should be started prior to postfix.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rc-update add dovecot default
2. rc-update add postfix default
3. init 6
4. tail -n100 /var/log/messages

Actual Results:  
postfix/master[4233]: daemon started -- version 2.5.5, configuration /etc/postfix

postfix/smtpd[4287]: warning: SASL: Connect to /var/run/dovecot/sasl-client-auth failed: No such file or directory

postfix/smtpd[4287]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
nexusone postfix/master[4233]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 4287 exit status 1

nexusone postfix/master[4233]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

nexusone dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.1 starting up

Comment 1 Roland Ramthun 2008-10-09 13:34:50 UTC

The problem persists with the recently stabilized net-mail/dovecot-1.1.4-r1.


Oct  9 15:20:48 nexusone postfix/postfix-script[4234]: starting the Postfix mail system
Oct  9 15:20:48 nexusone postfix/master[4235]: daemon started -- version 2.5.5, configuration /etc/postfix
Oct  9 15:20:48 nexusone postfix/smtpd[4289]: warning: SASL: Connect to /var/run/dovecot/sasl-client-auth failed: No such file or directory
Oct  9 15:20:48 nexusone postfix/smtpd[4289]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
Oct  9 15:20:49 nexusone postfix/master[4235]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 4289 exit status 1
Oct  9 15:20:50 nexusone postfix/master[4235]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Oct  9 15:20:50 nexusone dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.4 starting up

Comment 2 Roland Ramthun 2008-11-02 16:47:10 UTC

No change with net-mail/dovecot-1.1.6.

Nov  2 17:42:41 nexusone postfix/smtpd[4293]: warning: SASL: Connect to /var/run/dovecot/sasl-client-auth failed: No such file or directory
Nov  2 17:42:41 nexusone postfix/smtpd[4293]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
Nov  2 17:42:42 nexusone postfix/master[4235]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 4293 exit status 1
Nov  2 17:42:42 nexusone postfix/master[4235]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Nov  2 17:42:42 nexusone dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.6 starting up

Comment 3 Oliver Sucker 2009-07-05 21:12:23 UTC

Yes, i know that problem and it still exists.

Edit /etc/init.d/postfix and add 'dovecot' to the use line in depend() function.

This should be updated in '/usr/portage/mail-mta/postfix/files/postfix.rc6.2.5' as well.

HTH,
Oliver

Comment 4 Roland Ramthun 2009-07-06 08:44:53 UTC

Thanks, I use this solution since the initial bug report, but forgot to report it here.

It works fine and I think it should be incorporated into the init script.

Comment 5 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-08 08:03:16 UTC

you can just add RC_NEED="dovecot" (baselayout-1)
or rc_need="dovecot" (baselayout-2/OpenRC)
to /etc/conf.d/postfix.

Comment 6 Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev

2009-09-10 17:24:30 UTC

+  10 Sep 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> files/dovecot.init-r2:
+  Fixing init script ordering to avoid postfix/sasl failure, fixes #239535