Hi I was doing some migration from a 1.2 installation to a 2.1. While testing my new installation dovecot crashed at two test-cases constantly with with a "Panic: Trying to allocate 0 bytes" message.
Both times it was because I was using a wrong group (or none) in my config.
The output I got by dovecot was not that helpful. I only figured it out,
that it has something to do with the group by looking at the code, to
figure out where the stacktrace I got could come from.
Unfortunately, I don't remember one of the examples anymore that
correctly (except that it was also a group configuration related issue).
The other example, was that I was testing the quota warning scripts:
Normal delivery worked fine, but as soon as dovecot should send a quota
warning, after the mail got already delivered, I received said panic.
For the MTA the mail delivery failed (-> bounce), although the LDA
already delivered the mail, but failed in post processing (sending the
quota warning).
My fix was to add:
unix_listener quota-warning {
group = mail
mode = 0660
}
to the quota warning service. The LDA process has an own user per
mailbox and the mail group.
It looks to me as it would panic by looking up the user of the lda
process, but that's pure guess.
Attached is a debug output and the configuration that triggered the problem.
I see two problems:
1. Don't panic while "looking" up a group
2. Give a meaningful error messages.
If you have any further questions, please let me know.
~pete
==> /var/log/dovecot/debug.log <==
May 25 12:19:50 lda: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot
May 25 12:19:50 lda: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so
May 25 12:19:50 lda: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so
May 25 12:19:50 lda: Debug: auth input: dove...@example.com
home=/var/mail/dove...@example.com uid=41407 gid=12 quota_rule=*:storage=1M
May 25 12:19:50 lda: Debug: Added userdb setting:
plugin/quota_rule=*:storage=1M
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Effective uid=41407,
gid=12, home=/var/mail/dove...@example.com
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Quota root: name=User
quota backend=maildir args=
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Quota rule: root=User
quota mailbox=* bytes=1048576 messages=0
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Quota rule: root=User
quota mailbox=INBOX.Trash bytes=+104857 (10%) messages=0
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Quota warning:
bytes=996147 (95%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 95
dove...@example.co,
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Quota warning:
bytes=838860 (80%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 80
dove...@example.com
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Namespace inbox:
type=private, prefix=INBOX., sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes,
subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/var/mail/dove...@example.com
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: maildir++:
root=/var/mail/dove...@example.com/mail, index=, control=,
inbox=/var/mail/dove...@example.com/mail, alt=
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Quota root: name=User
quota backend=maildir args=
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Quota rule: root=User
quota mailbox=* bytes=0 messages=0
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Quota rule: root=User
quota mailbox=INBOX.Trash bytes=0 (10%) messages=0
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=0
(95%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 95 raw mail ur
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=0
(80%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 80 raw mail ur
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: none: root=, index=,
control=, inbox=, alt=
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: Destination address:
dove...@example.com (source: -a parameter)
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: sieve: user's script
path /var/mail/dove...@example.com/dovecot.sieve doesn't exist
(usinglobal script path in stead)
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: sieve: using sieve path
for user's script: /var/lib/dovecot-sieve/default.sieve
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: sieve: opening script
/var/lib/dovecot-sieve/default.sieve
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: sieve: script binary
/var/lib/dovecot-sieve/default.svbin successfully loaded
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: sieve: binary save: not
saving binary /var/lib/dovecot-sieve/default.svbin, because its already
stored
May 25 12:19:50 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: sieve: executing script
from /var/lib/dovecot-sieve/default.svbin
May 25 12:19:51 lda(dove...@example.com): Debug: quota: Executing
warning: quota-warning 80 dove...@example.com
==> /var/log/dovecot/deliver-errors.log <==
May 25 12:19:51 lda(dove...@example.com): Panic: Trying to allocate 0 bytes
May 25 12:19:51 lda(dove...@example.com): Error: Raw backtrace:
/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xbd4e70] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdoveco
t.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x43) [0xbd4f63] ->
/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xbd4784] ->
/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xbd
241d] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(t_malloc0+0x29) [0xbd2619] ->
/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(restrict_get_groups_list+0x43
) [0xbef183] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xbd2b39] ->
/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xbd2dd2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdove
cot.so.0 [0xbd34c6] ->
/usr/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so(quota_transaction_commit+0x5ff)
[0xeeeaff] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/lib10_quo
ta_plugin.so [0xef3f6c] ->
/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_transaction_commit_get_changes+0x42)
[0xc922d2] -> /usr/li
b/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_transaction_commit+0x33)
[0xc92323] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0 [0xd4cfa4] ->
/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0 [0xd44821] ->
/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(sieve_result_execute+0x2d1)
[0xd44b41] ->
/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(sieve_execute+0x69) [0xd550f9] ->
/usr/lib/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so [0x11211c] -> /usr/lib
/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so.0(mail_deliver+0x4c) [0x843e1c] ->
/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver(main+0x725) [0x804a185] -> /lib/i686/nosegn
eg/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x65ce9c] ->
/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver [0x80498c1]
== config
# dovecot -n
# 2.1.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.el5xen i686 CentOS release 5.8 (Final) xfs
debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug.log
dict {
expire = sqlite:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-expire.conf.ext
}
disable_plaintext_auth = no
first_valid_gid = 12
first_valid_uid = 40001
info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/infos.log
lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes
log_path = /var/log/dovecot/error.log
mail_debug = yes
mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%u/mail
maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational
regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox
date ihave
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix = INBOX.
}
passdb {
args = /usr/libexec/dovecot/checkpassword-bcrypt/checkpassword-bcrypt.rb
driver = checkpassword
}
plugin {
expire = INBOX.Trash 14 INBOX.Trash/* 14 INBOX.Spam 14 INBOX.spam 14
INBOX.Papierkorb 14 INBOX.Papierkorb/* 14 INBOX.Junk 14
expire_dict = proxy::expire
quota = maildir:User quota
quota_rule = *:storage=0
quota_rule2 = INBOX.Trash:storage=+10%%
quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u
quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u
sieve = ~/dovecot.sieve
sieve_default = /var/lib/dovecot-sieve/default.sieve
sieve_dir = ~/sieve
sieve_global_dir = /var/lib/dovecot-sieve/global/
}
postmaster_address = postmas...@example.com
protocols = imap pop3 sieve
service managesieve-login {
inet_listener sieve {
port = 4190
}
inet_listener sieve_deprecated {
port = 2000
}
}
service quota-warning {
executable = script /usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-warning.sh
}
ssl_cert = </etc/certs/server.crt
ssl_cipher_list = HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:!SSLv2:@STRENGTH
ssl_key = </etc/certs/server.key
userdb {
driver = prefetch
}
userdb {
args = /usr/libexec/dovecot/checkpassword-bcrypt/checkpassword-bcrypt.rb
driver = checkpassword
}
version_ignore = yes
protocol lda {
info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log
log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliver-errors.log
mail_plugins = sieve quota
}
protocol imap {
imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep
mail_max_userip_connections = 30
mail_plugins = expire quota imap_quota
}
protocol pop3 {
mail_plugins = expire quota
}
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