Re: postfix not running and not startable

[lst_hoe02]

Zitat von Dave Stevens <g...@uniserve.com>:

I have a vps running ubuntu 10.04LTS on an openVZ platform. On top of that I installed Virtualmin GPL to help host web sites and simplify mail setup. I don't have much need for mail at the moment but I expect to in the next few months.

Recently I ssh'd into the machine and did this:

logwatch --mailto=m...@mydomain.com



Investigation showed postfix not running. So...
I issued this command to try to start postfix:

sudo service postfix start

and syslog shows this output:







# ls -l /var/spool/postfix/private/
ls: cannot access /var/spool/postfix/private/anvil: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp: No such file or directory

total 0
s????????? ? ?       ?       ?                ? anvil
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 bounce
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-09-27 00:20 bsmtp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 defer
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 discard
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 error
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-09-27 00:20 ifmail
s????????? ? ?       ?       ?                ? lmtp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 local
s????????? ? ?       ?       ?                ? maildrop
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-09-27 00:20 mailman
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 proxymap
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 proxywrite
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 relay
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 retry
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 rewrite
s????????? ? ?       ?       ?                ? scache
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-09-27 00:20 scalemail-backend
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 smtp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 tlsmgr
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 trace
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-09-27 00:20 uucp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 verify
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 virtual

and after a few seconds I got a series of errors ending at line 870 in logwatch. The vps has 1.5 gigs guaranteed, 8GB burst, two cores, 40 gigs storage. Lots of resources as far as I can see. Nov 4 17:01:15 cl28810 postfix/master[11337]: fatal: bind: private/lmtp: No such file or directory Nov 4 17:01:36 cl28810 postfix/postfix-script[11515]: warning: not owned by postfix: /var/spool/postfix/private/anvil Nov 4 17:01:36 cl28810 postfix/postfix-script[11516]: warning: not owned by postfix: /var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp Nov 4 17:01:36 cl28810 postfix/postfix-script[11517]: warning: not owned by postfix: /var/spool/postfix/private/scache Nov 4 17:01:36 cl28810 postfix/postfix-script[11518]: warning: not owned by postfix: /var/spool/postfix/private/maildrop Nov 4 17:01:37 cl28810 postfix/postfix-script[11549]: starting the Postfix mail system Nov 4 17:01:37 cl28810 postfix/master[11550]: fatal: bind: private/lmtp: No such file or directory I don't understand the significance of these errors, although I can see they could cause problems. logwatch used to work on this machine so postfix was working then, a few months back. I had a look into /var/spool/postfix/private and got: ls: cannot access /var/spool/postfix/private/scache: No such file or directory ls: cannot access /var/spool/postfix/private/maildrop: No such file or directory and again don't understand what the significance of these errors is, or, more to the point, what to do to either diagnose or fix the problem.

Regards

Andreas

Your (virtual) filesystem is hosed. Nothing Postfix can do about and no way Postfix can operate with such errors. Reboot the Hardware Node with full filesystem check. What OpenVZ kernel you are running and what filesystem are the containers on?

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