Dovecot 1.2.10 fails to start

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 6, 2010, at 06:42, Mark Hattam wrote:

> Ah OK ... it doesn't go away on its own. It's been there a long time through lots of reboots.
> 
> iMac:dovecot mark$ ls -la /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x  6 root  admin    204  5 Feb 17:51 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  admin    136 21 Nov 02:50 ..
> srw-------  1 root  wheel      0  5 Feb 17:51 auth-worker.552
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 root  admin      0 30 Aug 23:43 dict-server
> drwxr-x---  3 root  dovecot  102  5 Feb 17:51 login
> -rw-------  1 root  admin      4  5 Feb 17:51 master.pid

Note also that dict-server is shown as a regular file (line begins with "-").


> iMac:dovecot mark$ sudo rm dict-server 
> 
> iMac:dovecot mark$ sudo port deactivate dovecot at 1.1.16_0+darwin_10
> --->  Deactivating dovecot @1.1.16_0+darwin_10
> 
> <reboot> to ensure nothing is running that oughtn't be
> 
> iMac:~ mark$ sudo port activate dovecot at 1.2.10_0
> --->  Activating dovecot @1.2.10_0
> 
> make the above changes to dovecot.conf
> iMac:~ mark$ sudo vi /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf 
> 
> run the new version again
> iMac:~ mark$ sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dovecot.plist

Note that deactivating a port and rebooting would not have unloaded the plist for you. If the plist was loaded, you should unload it before deactivating the port. It might be a good idea for MacPorts base to do this automatically, but it doesn't at present. In any case, it appears you were able to get dovecot stopped and its old socket file deleted, so that's good.


> Now I see

> iMac:dovecot mark$ sudo ls -la /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/
> Password:
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x  7 root  admin    238  6 Feb 12:32 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  admin    136 21 Nov 02:50 ..
> srw-------  1 root  wheel      0  6 Feb 12:32 auth-worker.64
> srwxrwxrwx  1 root  admin      0  6 Feb 12:32 dict-server
> lrwx------  1 root  admin     35  6 Feb 12:32 dovecot.conf -> /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> drwxr-x---  3 root  dovecot  102  6 Feb 12:32 login
> -rw-------  1 root  admin      3  6 Feb 12:32 master.pid

Note that now dict-server is marked as a socket link like it should be (line begins with "s").


> So dovecot 1.2.10 is now running without chucking errors into system.log or mail.log which appears to be good.

Great!