Hi all,
I posted a message last week about a problem with ssl-build-param,
shown below. I may have a lead on this, and was hoping someone
can confirm my theory.
On AIX, a malloc of 0 bytes returns NULL, which is different
than on Solaris and HP-UX (and probably Linux?) I'm
guessing the NULL pointer returned is causing the abort of the
ssl-build-param, since that was an unexpected result. Looking
briefly at the code in ssl-init-openssl.c that seems reasonable.
Can anyone please confirm this? And if so, any suggestions on
the best way to proceed?
Thanks much,
Jackie
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Jackie Hunt
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Fort Collins, CO 80523 Email: jackie.hunt at colostate.edu
> I'm trying to get dovecot up and running on an AIX 5.2 system
> with openssl 0.9.8a. Everything compiles fine, but when I start
> dovecot I find in the log:
>
> dovecot: May 08 13:39:14 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta7 starting up
> dovecot: May 08 13:39:14 Info: Generating Diffie-Hellman parameters for the
firs
> t time. This may take a while..
> dovecot: May 08 13:39:14 Error: ssl-build-param: Trying to allocate 0 bytes
> dovecot: May 08 13:39:14 Error: child 18998 (ssl-build-param) killed with
signal
> 6
> I searched the archives of the mailing list and didn't have any luck.
> Any help would be created appreciated. Please reply directly to me
> as well as the list. Thanks much!
>
> Jackie