[Dovecot] dovecot 1.1.11 errors

Timo Sirainen
Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:48:24 -0000

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:01 +0100, St?phane Cottin
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I sometimes got the following log entries with dovecot 1.1.11 :
>
>
> mail.err: Feb 27 10:06:54 dovecot: IMAP(hidden at email.com):
> write(dnotify pipe) failed: Bad file descriptor
> mail.err: Feb 27 10:06:54 dovecot: IMAP(hidden at email.com):
> close(dnotify pipe[0]) failed: Bad file descriptor
> mail.err: Feb 27 10:06:54 dovecot: IMAP(hidden at email.com):
> close(dnotify pipe[1]) failed: Bad file descriptor
> [...]
> mail.err: Feb 27 10:17:55 dovecot: child 18656 (imap) returned error
> 82 (Internal logging error)
>
> any thougths ?

Hmm. Not really. It seems like something closes wrong file descriptors.
How often do you get them? How soon after the client logged in does that
error happen (immediately/in a few seconds/later)?

You could try if not using dnotify helps, but I'm not so sure about
that. In any case post your dovecot -n output?
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