dovecot - Nov 2005 - dovecot crash after upgrade on FreeBSD

Updated from ports collection from ver. dovecot-1.0.a3 to 
1.0.a4_1. And it wan't work. Here's the log 

Nov  8 10:51:07 ot-group dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 starting up
Nov  8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down
Nov  8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: auth(default): Unknown userdb driver
'passdb'
Nov  8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: child 17872 (auth) returned error 89

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Marko Lerota wrote:
> Updated from ports collection from ver. dovecot-1.0.a3 to 1.0.a4_1.
> And it wan't work. Here's the log
> 
> Nov  8 10:51:07 ot-group dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 starting up Nov
> 8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting
> down Nov  8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: auth(default): Unknown userdb
> driver 'passdb' Nov  8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: child 17872
(auth)
> returned error 89
I had the same problem when going from 1.0alpha3 to 1.0alpha4.

Fix for me was to remove:

userdb passdb {}

from dovecot.conf.

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Marko Lerota <marko.lerota at zg.t-com.hr> writes:
> Updated from ports collection from ver. dovecot-1.0.a3 to 
> 1.0.a4_1. And it wan't work. Here's the log 
>
> Nov  8 10:51:07 ot-group dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 starting up
> Nov  8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting
down
> Nov  8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: auth(default): Unknown userdb driver
'passdb'
> Nov  8 10:51:08 ot-group dovecot: child 17872 (auth) returned error 89
I found the problem. I hashed the line 'userdb passdb {'
so it looks like this now 

  # vpopmail
  userdb vpopmail {
  }

  # "passdb" user database means that the passdb already provided the
  # needed information and there's no need to do a separate userdb lookup.
  # This can be made to work with SQL and LDAP databases.
  # http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthSpecials
  ## userdb passdb {
  ## }

The upgrade script probably defunct the original dovecot.conf. 
I'll post this to the maintainer.

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