[Dovecot] Dovecot dead after upgrade of MySQL

[John Peacock]

Saurabh Barve wrote:
> I upgraded my MySQL installation on my FC2 machine from the 3.23 version 
> to the newest 5.0 version. Now dovecot won't start. It gives me the 
> error : 'dovecot dead but subsys locked'. I am using dovecot-0.99-14.

Did you rebuild dovecot with the new libraries?  If you removed the 
MySQL 3.23 libraries, there would be nothing for dovecot to run against. 
  For that matter, I doubt that anyone has built dovecot with MySQL 5.0 
yet, so I'm not even sure that it is possible.

HTH

John

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