Re: [Dovecot] dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 3603 seconds.

[Stephen Feyrer]

Daniel L. Miller wrote:

Stephen Feyrer wrote:

<nervous_darting_eyes> Hi Everyone. </nervous_darting_eyes>

Ooops I just broke my dovecot install.




When I try to connect to my mail server I get this message.
"Could not connect to mail server chen.home.org; connection was refused"


The last message in /var/log/mail.err is:-

I've looked through the mailing list archives and not found anything relevant. Aug 13 21:02:27 chen dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 3603 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards

Is it possible to get dovecot working again?

It seems this is my own fault. Time on my system is a little wonky so I reset the time and then I found out I'd broken Dovecot. I didn't realise that doing this would have an impact on dovecot. I read the web page and to be honest I'm not confident about hacking source code. I've reinstalled dovecot which worked except it hasn't solved my time travel problem. By the way since my first install of dovecot the config file seems to have changed a little but since I've tried to migrate my settings over the new file and been met with the same problem I don't think it's that.

What happens when you try to start Dovecot again? Not re-install - just start it.

I just did this to show you.

# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
 * Stopping dovecot ...        [ ok ]
 * Starting dovecot ...        [ ok ]

And then this...

# dovecot -n
# 1.1.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
listen: [::]
ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl.ca/myca.pem
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl.ca/newcerts/email.cer
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl.ca/private/email.key
ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
ssl_verify_client_cert: yes
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
mail_location: maildir:~/.maildir
auth default:
  ssl_require_client_cert: yes
  ssl_username_from_cert: yes
  passdb:
    driver: pam
    args: *
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
  socket:
    type: listen
    client:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
      mode: 432
    master:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
      mode: 384
      user: root
      group: root

And then this again...
 # /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
 * Stopping dovecot ...         [ ok ]
 * Starting dovecot ...

Warning: Last died with error (see error log for more information): Time just moved backwards by 106 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards [ ok ]

I've not seen this before in a restart.

That was followed by...
# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
 * Stopping dovecot ...        [ ok ]
 * Starting dovecot ...        [ ok ]


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Regards

Stephen.

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