on 2-4-2009 8:14 AM Bruce Bodger spake the following:> I've figured this one out... Just wanted to get it into the dovecot
> mailing list archive so that somebody in the future might find it if
> they need it.
>
> Running Dovecot on Mac OS X 10.4.11 and using LaunchDaemon to start.
> Following a system crash, dovecot failed to restart with this in the
> system log...
>
> Feb 4 10:04:29 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: exited with exit code: 89
> Feb 4 10:04:29 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: respawning too quickly!
> throttling
> Feb 4 10:04:29 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: 7 more failures without
> living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
> Feb 4 10:04:29 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: will restart in 10 seconds
> Feb 4 10:04:39 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: exited with exit code: 89
> Feb 4 10:04:39 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: respawning too quickly!
> throttling
> Feb 4 10:04:39 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: 6 more failures without
> living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
> Feb 4 10:04:39 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: will restart in 10 seconds
> Feb 4 10:04:49 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: exited with exit code: 89
> Feb 4 10:04:49 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: respawning too quickly!
> throttling
> Feb 4 10:04:49 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: 5 more failures without
> living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
> Feb 4 10:04:49 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: will restart in 10 seconds
>
> The problem turned out to be an old master.pid file
> (/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/master.pid) that was left over from the crash.
>
> Deleting the file allowed dovecot to restart.
>
> Actually, dovecot told me what the problem was when I attempted to start
> it from the command line as opposed to starting it with the LaunchDaemon...
>
> G520X2:root# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F
> Fatal: Dovecot is already running with PID 59 (read from
> /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/master.pid)
>
>
> Hope it helps someone else.
>
> B. Bodger
>
>
>
>
Init files should have some code to check if a pid is left behind.
That way this won't happen. If a pid points to a non-existent process, or
the
process isn't what it expects, it deletes the pidfile, otherwise it skips
starting.
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