dovecot - Apr 2003 - Error: child 12625 (imap) killed with signal 12

Hi!

I have tried to install dovecot as my imap service on my FreeBSD server.
At first all looked fine and worked flawless. But after a while i started
to get errors. The imap process dies with signal 12 when the client tries
to check the contens of the folder.

dovecot: Apr 07 09:55:17 Error: child 12625 (imap) killed with signal 12

Any ideas what may cause this problem?

MvH Johan Willard

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 13:04, Johan Willard wrote:
> I have tried to install dovecot as my imap service on my FreeBSD server.
> At first all looked fine and worked flawless. But after a while i started
> to get errors. The imap process dies with signal 12 when the client tries
> to check the contens of the folder.
> 
> dovecot: Apr 07 09:55:17 Error: child 12625 (imap) killed with signal 12
> 
> Any ideas what may cause this problem?
That's "non-existent system call invoked" signal. Strange,
I've never
seen that before. What's the point of it anyway, why not just return
ENOSYS?

What version of FreeBSD are you using? I'm guessing it's the sendfile()
call, try to comment out #define HAVE_FREEBSD_SENDFILE line from
config.h.

And you are using Dovecot 0.99.8.1, right? There were several FreeBSD
problems before.