Bugzilla Bug 23037

When I try to start saslauthd I get the following message:
  saslauthd[2820] :set_auth_mech    : failed to initialize mechanism rimap

current version of cyrus-sasl: 2.1.13
with previous version (2.1.10-r2) I had no problems



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1./etc/init.d/saslauthd start
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
saslauthd[2820] :set_auth_mech    : failed to initialize mechanism rimap


Expected Results:  
saslauthd               ok


Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-1.0, gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.2.5-r8)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r3 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/obj"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 gnome-libs -3dfx -3dnow aalib -acl -acpi -afs -alsa apache2 -apm -arts
atlas avi berkdb -bonobo -canna cdr -cjk crypt -cups -curl -debug dga -directfb
-doc dvb dvd -emacs encode -esd ethereal -evo -fbcon -firebird flash -freetds
-freewnn -gb gd gdbm -ggi gif -gnome gphoto2 -gpm gps gtk -gtk2 -gtkhtml -guile
-icc -icc-pgo imap imlib -informix innodb -ipv6 jack java jikes jpeg -junit -kde
-kerberos -krb4 -ladcca lcms -ldap libg++ +lirc -leim -libgda libwww -matrox
-maildir mbox -mcal memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg -mpi -mule -mysql nas
ncurses -nhc98 nls -nocardbus -oci8 -odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia -pda
pdflib perl plotutils png pnp -postgres -prebuilt python -qt quicktime readline
-ruby samba sasl -scanner sdl slang -slp snmp socks5 spell sse ssl -static -svga
tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype trusted usb -voodoo3 -wavelan wmf X Xaw3d
-xinerama -xface xml xml2 xmms xv -zeo zlib lids"
COMPILER=""
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

2002-05-17  Rob Siemborski <rjs3@andrew.cmu.edu>
        * saslauthd/saslauthd-*.c: support a generic mechanism option -O
          instead of -H

With cyrus-sasl-2.1.13 the /etc/conf.d/saslauthd file has been changed...
-H was no longer a valid option to pass to saslauthd wrt rimap...

Has your /etc/conf.d/saslauthd been updated accordingly?

With -O in /etc/conf.d/saslauthd the same story :-(

Ran into this problem myself. Was a oops on my part of not updating the config
file.

This attachment will fix the problem. Overwrite your old file in /etc/conf.d

Created an attachment (id=13832) [details]
New config file for saslauthd

Place in /etc/conf.d and try
/etc/init.d/saslauthd zap start

my problems are no in config file but somewhere else:

# saslauthd -a rimap -O 127.0.0.1
saslauthd[2820] :set_auth_mech    : failed to initialize mechanism rimap

I cannot find the source of this problem :-(((

cyrus-sasl-2.1.14 has been added to portage.  Please test this new version.

Now it works. Thank you

problem is reported as fixed. :)