dovecot - Aug 2006 - RC6 startup failure: "Login prcess died too early"

Greetings.

I have been running Dovecot-1.0rc2 on a test server for the last couple 
of weeks.  No problems.  However, when I installed RC6 this morning, 
Dovecot refused to launch completely.  Here's the relevant snippet from 
/var/log/maillog:

Aug  7 10:08:36 mercury dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc6 starting up
Aug  7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting 
down
Aug  7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: child 26127 (login) killed with signal 11
Aug  7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: child 26128 (login) killed with signal 11

 
Both RC2 and RC6 compiled cleanly with "--with-pop3d".  For reasons 
beyond my control, I have to set

protocols = imap pop3
disable_plaintext_auth = no
ssl_disable = yes

I do have a valid /etc/pam.d/dovecot file (we're using PAM).  I made 
certain that the localized settings for /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf 
matched what they were in RC2 for RC6.  (I did use the RC6 
dovecot-example.conf as source for RC6, then made the local changes.  I 
also tried testing RC6 with my old RC2 config file--same failure).

So, RC2 starts just fine.  RC6 fails to start with the messages logged 
above.  Can anyone give me any pointers?  RHEL (Linux Kernel 
2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp), built from source, nothing out-of-the-ordinary.  
Right now, I've reverted back to RC2.

TIA.
S JList
sjlist at heidelberg.edu


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P.S. More info on my earlier post...I had gone directly from RC2 -> 
RC6.    So I wondered if the problem had been introduced sometime 
between the two.  I just now compiled RC5, and it does -not- exhibit the 
problem below for me.  So it seems to be something new in RC6 given my 
setup.

Thanks,

S JList


S JList wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I have been running Dovecot-1.0rc2 on a test server for the last 
> couple of weeks.  No problems.  However, when I installed RC6 this 
> morning, Dovecot refused to launch completely.  Here's the relevant 
> snippet from /var/log/maillog:
>
> Aug  7 10:08:36 mercury dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc6 starting up
> Aug  7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: Login process died too early - 
> shutting down
> Aug  7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: child 26127 (login) killed with signal 11
> Aug  7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: child 26128 (login) killed with signal 11
>
>  
> Both RC2 and RC6 compiled cleanly with "--with-pop3d".  For
reasons
> beyond my control, I have to set
>
> protocols = imap pop3
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> ssl_disable = yes
>
> I do have a valid /etc/pam.d/dovecot file (we're using PAM).  I made 
> certain that the localized settings for /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf 
> matched what they were in RC2 for RC6.  (I did use the RC6 
> dovecot-example.conf as source for RC6, then made the local changes.  
> I also tried testing RC6 with my old RC2 config file--same failure).
>
> So, RC2 starts just fine.  RC6 fails to start with the messages logged 
> above.  Can anyone give me any pointers?  RHEL (Linux Kernel 
> 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp), built from source, nothing out-of-the-ordinary.  
> Right now, I've reverted back to RC2.
>
> TIA.
> S JList
> sjlist at heidelberg.edu
>
>
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On 7.8.2006, at 17.25, S JList wrote:
> I have been running Dovecot-1.0rc2 on a test server for the last  
> couple of weeks.  No problems.  However, when I installed RC6 this  
> morning, Dovecot refused to launch completely.  Here's the relevant  
> snippet from /var/log/maillog:
I guess this fixes it? http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006- 
August/006209.html

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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 7.8.2006, at 17.25, S JList wrote:
>
>> I have been running Dovecot-1.0rc2 on a test server for the last 
>> couple of weeks.  No problems.  However, when I installed RC6 this 
>> morning, Dovecot refused to launch completely.  Here's the relevant
>> snippet from /var/log/maillog:
>
> I guess this fixes it? 
> http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-August/006209.html
>
Timo,

Yes--this does seem to fix it.  I modified my copy of 
src/login-common/ssl-proxy-openssl from the RC6 source files, made the 
change you noted, and it seems to have fixed my problem (crashing on 
startup if SSL was disabled).

Thanks so much for all of your hard work and this quick reply.  I'm 
running with this change in my RC6 now, and (I'm not a CVS user, nor am 
I very familiar with it) that this change will be rolled into RC7, then, 
right?

Thanks again for your response--much appreciated.

S JList
sjlist at heidelberg.edu