on 2-4-2009 8:14 AM Bruce Bodger spake the following: > I've figured this one out... Just wanted to get it into the dovecot > mailing list archive so that somebody in the future might find it if > they need it. > > Running Dovecot on Mac OS X 10.4.11 and using LaunchDaemon to start. > Following a system crash, dovecot failed to restart with this in the > system log... > > Feb 4 10:04:29 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: exited with exit code: 89 > Feb 4 10:04:29 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: respawning too quickly! > throttling > Feb 4 10:04:29 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: 7 more failures without > living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal > Feb 4 10:04:29 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: will restart in 10 seconds > Feb 4 10:04:39 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: exited with exit code: 89 > Feb 4 10:04:39 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: respawning too quickly! > throttling > Feb 4 10:04:39 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: 6 more failures without > living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal > Feb 4 10:04:39 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: will restart in 10 seconds > Feb 4 10:04:49 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: exited with exit code: 89 > Feb 4 10:04:49 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: respawning too quickly! > throttling > Feb 4 10:04:49 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: 5 more failures without > living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal > Feb 4 10:04:49 G520X2 launchd: org.dovecot: will restart in 10 seconds > > The problem turned out to be an old master.pid file > (/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/master.pid) that was left over from the crash. > > Deleting the file allowed dovecot to restart. > > Actually, dovecot told me what the problem was when I attempted to start > it from the command line as opposed to starting it with the LaunchDaemon... > > G520X2:root# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F > Fatal: Dovecot is already running with PID 59 (read from > /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/master.pid) > > > Hope it helps someone else. > > B. Bodger > > > > Init files should have some code to check if a pid is left behind. That way this won't happen. If a pid points to a non-existent process, or the process isn't what it expects, it deletes the pidfile, otherwise it skips starting.
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