Hi Brandon, since our patches are very similar, they should be a good way to fix this issue. For me it's working since 7 days now without a harm.
See: http://markmail.org/message/p736w5f4dmamfnom Ralf Brandon Davidson schrieb am 23.09.2009 03:41: > Hi all, > > We recently attempted to update our Dovecot installation to version > 1.2.5. After doing so, we noticed a constant stream of crash messages in > our log file: > > Sep 22 15:58:41 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<USERNAME>, > method=PLAIN, rip=X.X.X.X, lip=X.X.X.X, TLS > Sep 22 15:58:41 hostname dovecot: dovecot: child 6339 (imap) killed with > signal 11 (core dumps disabled) > > We rolled back to version 1.2.4, and installed 1.2.5 on a test system - > something we'll have to make sure to do *before* rolling new versions > into production. > > Anyway, after examining a few core files from the test system, it looks > like the recent changes to the quota plugin (specifically the maildir > backend's late initialization fix) have broken the other backends. Stack > trace and further debugging are available here: > http://uoregon.edu/~brandond/dovecot-1.2.5/bt.txt > > The relevant code seems to have been added in changeset 9380: > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/fe063e0d7109 > > Specifically, quota.c line 447 does not check to see if the backend > implements init_limits before calling it, resulting in a null function > call for all backends that do not do so. Since this crash would appear > to affect all quota backends other than maildir, it should be a pretty > easy to reproduce. > > I've attached a patch which seems to fix the obvious code issue. I can't > guarantee it's the correct fix since this is my first poke at the > Dovecot source, but it seems to have stopped the crashing on our test > host. > > Regards, > > -Brandon -- ______________________________________________________________________ Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Ralf Becker Rechenzentrum (r/ft) der FH Trier (Network|Mail|Web|Firewall) University of applied sciences Administrator Schneidershof, D-54293 Trier Mail: beck...@fh-trier.de Fon: +49 651 8103 499 Web: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr Fax: +49 651 8103 214 PubKey: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr Crypto: GnuPG, S/MIME ______________________________________________________________________ Wenn Gott gewollt haette, dass E-Mail in HTML geschrieben wuerden, endeten Gebete traditionell mit </amen>. (Tom Listen)
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