It crashes with something like: dovecot-auth[7430]: segfault at 00000000556aef48 rip 00002b14f14309d7 rsp 00007fffb99fc8f0 error 4 Log reports (I enabled all 'verbose' options): dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc29 starting up dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: child 7430 (auth) killed with signal 11 Here is my emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.2 (hardened/amd64/multilib, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r5, 2.6.18-hardened-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-hardened-r6 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 850 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:50:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uoi.gr/mirror/OS/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 apache2 berkdb bzip2 crypt hardened imap justify ldap libwww maildir midi multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam perl pic python readline sasl sse2 ssl tcpd unicode vhosts xorg zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Oops I forgot to add the config files: base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps protocol imap { listen = 127.0.0.1 ssl_listen = * } disable_plaintext_auth = yes syslog_facility = mail ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/Cert.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/Req.pem ssl_ca_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem verbose_ssl = yes login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/domains/%d/%n first_valid_uid = 1001 last_valid_uid = 1001 first_valid_gid = 1001 last_valid_gid = 1001 valid_chroot_dirs = /home/vmail/domains protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster@mydomain.com } auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = dovecot-auth } dict { } plugin { }
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Could you try the patch on bug #162437 please?
Your patch works like a charm! :) I tryed it with _rc31 (currently keyworded) and dovecot doesn't crash anymore
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 162437 ***
