[Dovecot] New to dovecot, little luck - signal 10 death for imap

[Jeroen Scheerder]

Peter Evans wrote:
> Jeroen Scheerder (Jeroen.Scheerder at phil.uu.nl) wrote:
> 
>>However, whenever a mailbox is selected, the imap subprocess dies.
>>Jul 13 14:52:05 localhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: js [127.0.0.1]
>>Jul 13 14:52:07 localhost dovecot: child 8082 (imap) killed with signal 10
> 
> 
> 	You're going to have to help us to help you. 10 is bus error (I think)
> 	which is badness.
> 
> 	OS,
> 	version of dovecot 
> 	etc.
> 
> 	you might want to debug a coredump, that will tell you where/why its
> 	dying too.

I would merrily gdb into a coredump and stacktrace away, if a core dump were 
created.  No such luck.

I'm now logging directly to file using syslog, after having started dovecot. 
  There is no limit on coredumps:

% limit
cputime         unlimited
filesize        unlimited
datasize        unlimited
stacksize       8MB
coredumpsize    unlimited
descriptors     64
vmemorysize     unlimited
% more /tmp/dovecot*
::::::::::::::
/tmp/dovecot-info.log
::::::::::::::
dovecot: Jul 13 15:27:35 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up
dovecot: Jul 13 15:28:21 Info: imap-login: Login: avank [127.0.0.1]
::::::::::::::
/tmp/dovecot.log
::::::::::::::
dovecot: Jul 13 15:28:21 Error: child 14882 (imap) killed with signal 10

Environmental details:

	Solaris 7 (sparc)
	dovecot 1.0-stable
	compiled with ldap support
	using gcc 3.3.4
		  4.0.0
		  4.0.1  (no difference here)
	configured for mbox support
	with locking matching procmail's delivery locking strategies
	with authentication using passwd/shadow native databases


A header dump shows nothing suspect:

% elfdump -d /phil/sunos/sparc/pkg/dovecot-1.0-stable/libexec/dovecot/imap

Dynamic Section:  .dynamic
      index  tag               value
        [0]  NEEDED           0x1               libsocket.so.1
        [1]  NEEDED           0x117             librt.so.1
        [2]  NEEDED           0x140             libc.so.1
        [3]  NEEDED           0x397             libnsl.so.1
        [4]  NEEDED           0x3b3             libdl.so.1
        [5]  RPATH            0x3cc             /phil/sw/sunos/sparc/lib
[snip]


Will try on Solaris 10.