dovecot - Aug 2005 - Fatal: EOF reading environment from master

I have been running dovecot as an imap server since 22nd July 2005.
The server was started from xinetd using /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-auth
The sever run successfully until the machine was shut down in a power outage
on 12 Aug 2005.  Dovecot has failed to start since the reboot.  When starting
it with the imap-auth it gives the following error:
   fatal: EOF reading environment from master

I have uninstalled dovecot, downloaded, compiled, and installed the stable of
14Aug 2005 and got the same error.  I then installed the 0.99.14 version ang
got the same error.

Can i have assistance in solving and/or diagnosing the problem? 

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Marcathian Alexander
SDE Assistant
Sustainable Development and Environment Section
Ministry of Physical Development, Environment & Housing
Open Source Software Evaluation Project - WebMail/Groupware/Collaboaration
[Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)]

Have you tried deleting removing the indexes? Dovecot will rebuild  
them automatically and at no cost for smaller mailboxes, so they're  
typically safe to delete.

--
Jacob Elder



On Aug 16, 2005, at 3:57 PM, Marcathian Alexander wrote:
>
> I have been running dovecot as an imap server since 22nd July 2005.
> The server was started from xinetd using /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ 
> imap-auth
> The sever run successfully until the machine was shut down in a  
> power outage
> on 12 Aug 2005.  Dovecot has failed to start since the reboot.   
> When starting
> it with the imap-auth it gives the following error:
>    fatal: EOF reading environment from master
>
> I have uninstalled dovecot, downloaded, compiled, and installed the  
> stable of
> 14Aug 2005 and got the same error.  I then installed the 0.99.14  
> version ang
> got the same error.
>
> Can i have assistance in solving and/or diagnosing the problem?
>
> --
> Marcathian Alexander
> SDE Assistant
> Sustainable Development and Environment Section
> Ministry of Physical Development, Environment & Housing
> Open Source Software Evaluation Project - WebMail/Groupware/ 
> Collaboaration
> [Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)]
>
>

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:57 -0400, Marcathian Alexander
wrote:
> I have been running dovecot as an imap server since 22nd July 2005.
> The server was started from xinetd using
/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-auth
> The sever run successfully until the machine was shut down in a power
outage
> on 12 Aug 2005.  Dovecot has failed to start since the reboot.  When
starting
> it with the imap-auth it gives the following error:
>    fatal: EOF reading environment from master
Running Dovecot from xinetd hasn't usually been working. I guess it
works in some releases, but I haven't really tried to keep it working..
Maybe I should fix it for v1.0 release.

Hello
On 7 sept 2005 I downloaded compiled and installed Dovecot v1.0.alpha1.
I get the following error when ever I try to start it using
fossil:/usr/local/libexec/dovecot # ./imap-login
Fatal: EOF while reading environment from master

The dovecot.err log has the following error:
dovecot: Sep 08 18:47:33 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha1 starting up
dovecot: Sep 08 18:47:33 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name
'imap'

I am not using xinetd to start it.  the Alpha version has not worked no
version of dove cot has worked since I first reported this problem.

I shall be gratefull for any solutions offered

Marcathian


On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:04:28 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:57 -0400, Marcathian Alexander wrote:
> > I have been running dovecot as an imap server since 22nd July 2005.
> > The server was started from xinetd using
/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-auth
> > The sever run successfully until the machine was shut down in a power
outage
> > on 12 Aug 2005.  Dovecot has failed to start since the reboot.  When
starting
> > it with the imap-auth it gives the following error:
> >    fatal: EOF reading environment from master
> 
> Running Dovecot from xinetd hasn't usually been working. I guess it
> works in some releases, but I haven't really tried to keep it working..
> Maybe I should fix it for v1.0 release.

--
Marcathian Alexander
SDE Assistant
Sustainable Development and Environment Section
Ministry of Physical Development, Environment & Housing
Open Source Software Evaluation Project - WebMail/Groupware/Collaboaration
[Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)]