* Stefan Foerster <cite+postfix-us...@incertum.net>:
> While testing something completely different, I noticed that a newly
> installed test machine didn't send any mail:
>
> Jan 20 11:45:27 vhrstest postfix/pickup[9992]: fatal: could not find any
> active network interfaces
> Jan 20 11:45:27 vhrstest postfix/master[12458]: warning: process
> /usr/lib/postfix/pickup pid 9992 exit status 1
> Jan 20 11:45:28 vhrstest postfix/master[12458]: warning:
> /usr/lib/postfix/pickup: bad command startup -- throttling
>
> No IPv6 involved, two active interfaces (eth0 and lo), Postfix 2.8.7
> on CentOS 6.2. Configuration information (single instance setup):
>
> alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
> config_directory = /etc/postfix
> inet_interfaces = all
> mydestination = vhrstest.example.com, localhost
> myhostname = vhrstest.example.com
> mydomain = example.com
> mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
> relayhost = [mailrelay.example.com]:25
> smtp_tls_security_level = may
> smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
>
> IP/link information:
> root@vhrstest:~# ip a l
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
> inet6 ::1/128 scope host
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP
> qlen 1000
> link/ether 1c:6f:65:92:a6:13 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> inet 172.16.12.10/24 brd 172.16.12.255 scope global eth0
> inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fe17:4b17/64 scope link
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>
> No virtualization involved. Prevented the IPv6 module from loading,
> same results (postfix-wise, of course the inet6 lines in the above
> output don't show up).
>
> Can anyone help me debug this further?
I suspected a problem with SELinux, so I deactivated it, but that
didn't change the issue.
