[Bug 774852] [NEW] Postfix 'local' crashes

2011-05-01 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: postfix Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 11.04 Package version: postfix 2.8.2-1ubuntu1 System: PowerMac G4 "Silver" After an update of my box from 10.10 to 11.04, the 'local' delivery agent of Postfix stopped working. I added verbose debugging for it in /etc/pos

[Bug 774852] Re: Postfix 'local' crashes

2011-05-07 Thread Albrecht Dreß
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected natty ** Description changed: Binary package hint: postfix Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 11.04 Package version: postfix 2.8.2-1ubuntu1 System: PowerMac G4 "Silver" After an update of my box from 10.10 to 11.04, the 'local' delivery a

[Bug 774852] Re: Postfix 'local' crashes

2011-05-07 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Hi Clint: Asking Google about this issue, I found some complaints from Gentoo users related to glibc 2.13 and pre-linking [1]. However, the prelink package is not installed on my box, and installing it doesn't change anything. It might have been a build issue, though. An other source might be t

[Bug 774852] Re: Postfix 'local' crashes

2011-05-08 Thread Albrecht Dreß
I re-compiled the package with some extra information (added strerror(errno) at varoius places). The reason for the failing 'local' process is in src/util/open_limit.c, where the call to getrlimit (yes, *not* setrlimit!) fails with EPERM. That's really strange! BTW, I don't have SElinux enabled.

[Bug 774852] Re: Postfix 'local' crashes

2011-05-15 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Side note: the following code runs fine on my box: #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { struct rlimit rl; int result; result = getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rl); printf("%d -> %d %d\n", result, (int) rl.rlim_cur, (int) rl.rlim_max); return 0; } Running it

[Bug 774852] Re: Postfix 'local' crashes

2011-05-26 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Hi Serge: Thanks a lot for your comment - the getrlimit() behaviour is indeed puzzling! Having a closer look at my system, I believe I found the reason, though. The Ubuntu upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 failed to change the bootloader config (yaboot on Mac's) to boot the kernel coming with the new r