Your dbmail installation can't connect to the database. The log is very clear
about this.
If you can do 'dbmail-adduser s' and get a valid return, then you may start the
servers, if not, fix your database connection before proceeding.
This check is build into the debian init scripts for a good reason. But you do
have a point, the daemons should exit gracefully in such a situation, instead of
going on a stampede.
Rick Morris wrote:
Hi,
I installed DBmail 1.2.9 with PostgreSQL support from the FreeBSD ports,
created the appropriate PostgreSQL database, created a user, created the
'dbmail' user, etc... and edited /usr/local/etc/dbmail.conf
appropriately (AFAIK).
I also installed Postfix as the MTA, and it is running fine.
But when I try to run dbmail-imapd, within seconds it spawns so many
processes that the console starts showing the message "dbmail-imapd in
malloc(): warning: recursive call" repeatedly. The same thing happens
when I try dbmail-pop3d. The log fills up with messages like:
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[44728]: StartServer(): child
[45392] has exited
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[45408]: PerformChildTask(): could
not connect to database
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[45410]: CreateChild(): signal
handler placed, going to perform task now
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[44728]: StartServer(): creating
new child
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[44728]: ParentSigHandler(): got
signal [20]
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[44728]: ParentSigHandler(): got
signal [20]
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[44728]: StartServer(): child
[45394] has exited
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[45412]: CreateChild(): signal
handler placed, going to perform task now
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[44728]: StartServer(): creating
new child
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[44728]: StartServer(): child
[45396] has exited
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[45414]: CreateChild(): signal
handler placed, going to perform task now
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[44728]: StartServer(): creating
new child
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[45410]: dbconnect(): PQconnectdb
failed: FATAL: sorry, too many clients already
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[45410]: PerformChildTask(): could
not connect to database
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[45412]: dbconnect(): PQconnectdb
failed: FATAL: sorry, too many clients already
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[45416]: CreateChild(): signal
handler placed, going to perform task now
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[44728]: StartServer(): child
[45398] has exited
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[45412]: PerformChildTask(): could
not connect to database
Aug 3 01:30:53 bluebox dbmail/imap4d[44728]: StartServer(): creating
new child
I am running FreeBSD 4.10. I searched the mailling list for similar
problems and only found one mention of this, in May 2004, with no
resolution. Any ideas what I can look for?
Regards,
Rick Morris
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