Greetings, I installed Dovecot 2.3.10 on my Centos 7.7.1908 server, however it fails startup. This is a fresh/default install, meaning all the configs are default, downloaded from the dovecot.repo. Here is my PasteBin: https://pastebin.com/376UQFLs ### Error Log, copied from Journalctl print out ### Apr 20 21:10:01 server101 systemd[1]: Started Session 955 of user root. Apr 20 21:10:01 server101 CROND[8057]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1) Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 polkitd[1293]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:8065:44125203 (system bus name :1.2058 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback], object path /org/freedesktop/Polic Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Starting One-time Dovecot init service... Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: dovecot-init.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Failed to start One-time Dovecot init service. Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server. Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Job dovecot.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Unit dovecot-init.service entered failed state. Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: dovecot-init.service failed. Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 polkitd[1293]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:8065:44125203 (system bus name :1.2058, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8 lines 6106-6158/6158 (END) ### Linux Server Version ### [root at server101 log]# cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core) ### Dovecot Version ### Installed Packages Name ? ? ? ?: dovecot Arch ? ? ? ?: x86_64 Epoch ? ? ? : 2 Version ? ? : 2.3.10 Release ? ? : 2 Size ? ? ? ?: 15 M Repo ? ? ? ?: installed From repo ? : dovecot-2.3-latest Summary ? ? : Secure imap and pop3 server URL ? ? ? ? : http://www.dovecot.org/ License ? ? : MIT and LGPLv2 Description : Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security ? ? ? ? ? ? : primarily in mind. ?It also contains a small POP3 server. ?It supports mail ? ? ? ? ? ? : in either of maildir or mbox formats. ? ? ? ? ? ? : ? ? ? ? ? ? : The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are in their subpackages. ---- Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Sincerely, Jacob S. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20200420/d1c446c7/attachment-0001.html>
Can you show journalctl -xe and systemctl status dovecot-init and /var/log/messages Aki> On 21/04/2020 06:02 Jacob Shea <jacob at a1elitesolutions.com> wrote: > > > Greetings, > I installed Dovecot 2.3.10 on my Centos 7.7.1908 server, however it fails startup. This is a fresh/default install, meaning all the configs are default, downloaded from the dovecot.repo. > > Here is my PasteBin: https://pastebin.com/376UQFLs > ### Error Log, copied from Journalctl print out ### > Apr 20 21:10:01 server101 systemd[1]: Started Session 955 of user root. > Apr 20 21:10:01 server101 CROND[8057]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1) > Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 polkitd[1293]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:8065:44125203 (system bus name :1.2058 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback], object path /org/freedesktop/Polic > Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Starting One-time Dovecot init service... > Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: dovecot-init.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT > Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Failed to start One-time Dovecot init service. > Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server. > Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Job dovecot.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. > Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Unit dovecot-init.service entered failed state. > Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: dovecot-init.service failed. > Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 polkitd[1293]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:8065:44125203 (system bus name :1.2058, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8 > lines 6106-6158/6158 (END) > ### Linux Server Version ### > [root at server101 log]# cat /etc/centos-release > CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core) > ### Dovecot Version ### > Installed Packages > Name : dovecot > Arch : x86_64 > Epoch : 2 > Version : 2.3.10 > Release : 2 > Size : 15 M > Repo : installed > From repo : dovecot-2.3-latest > Summary : Secure imap and pop3 server > URL : http://www.dovecot.org/ > License : MIT and LGPLv2 > Description : Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security > : primarily in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server. It supports mail > : in either of maildir or mbox formats. > : > : The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are in their subpackages. > ---- > Any help or suggestions are appreciated. > Sincerely, > Jacob S. >
-- Message 3 - Second Response -- Aki, I pasted all you requested to Pastebin.com https://pastebin.com/fVLD495y Thank you for your assistance, - Jacob -- Message 2 - Initial Response -- On 4/21/20 2:43 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:> Can you show > > journalctl -xe > > and > > systemctl status dovecot-init > > and > > /var/log/messages > > Aki-- Message 1 - Initial Message -->> On 21/04/2020 06:02 Jacob Shea <jacob at a1elitesolutions.com> wrote: >> >> >> Greetings, >> I installed Dovecot 2.3.10 on my Centos 7.7.1908 server, however it fails startup. This is a fresh/default install, meaning all the configs are default, downloaded from the dovecot.repo. >> >> Here is my PasteBin: https://pastebin.com/376UQFLs >> ### Error Log, copied from Journalctl print out ### >> Apr 20 21:10:01 server101 systemd[1]: Started Session 955 of user root. >> Apr 20 21:10:01 server101 CROND[8057]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1) >> Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 polkitd[1293]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:8065:44125203 (system bus name :1.2058 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback], object path /org/freedesktop/Polic >> Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Starting One-time Dovecot init service... >> Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: dovecot-init.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT >> Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Failed to start One-time Dovecot init service. >> Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server. >> Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Job dovecot.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. >> Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: Unit dovecot-init.service entered failed state. >> Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 systemd[1]: dovecot-init.service failed. >> Apr 20 21:10:18 server101 polkitd[1293]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:8065:44125203 (system bus name :1.2058, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8 >> lines 6106-6158/6158 (END) >> ### Linux Server Version ### >> [root at server101 log]# cat /etc/centos-release >> CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core) >> ### Dovecot Version ### >> Installed Packages >> Name : dovecot >> Arch : x86_64 >> Epoch : 2 >> Version : 2.3.10 >> Release : 2 >> Size : 15 M >> Repo : installed >> From repo : dovecot-2.3-latest >> Summary : Secure imap and pop3 server >> URL : http://www.dovecot.org/ >> License : MIT and LGPLv2 >> Description : Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security >> : primarily in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server. It supports mail >> : in either of maildir or mbox formats. >> : >> : The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are in their subpackages. >> ---- >> Any help or suggestions are appreciated. >> Sincerely, >> Jacob S. >>
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