[Dovecot] LMTP Proxy

Timo Sirainen
Wed, 03 Jul 2013 01:25:00 -0000

On 3.7.2013, at 3.20, Cassidy Larson <alandaluz at gmail.com> wrote:

> dovecot: auth: Fatal: master: service(auth): child 72272 killed with signal
> 11 (core not dumped)

A crash is always a bug. It would be nice to be able to fix it. A gdb backtrace
would be the easiest way to fix it. One possibility would be to a get a core
dump, which could be kind of annoyingly difficult since it didn't already
happen. One hopefully easier way would be to:

1. telnet localhost 143
2. In another terminal run: ps aux | grep dovecot/auth; gdb -p <pid of that
auth process>
cont
<do whatever to get the process to crash>
bt full