[Dovecot] dovecot-1.0_rc7 crashes (Login process died too early) with repeated deletes from thunderbird

Tim Schafer tim_schafer at shipfsp.com
Fri Aug 25 02:14:47 EEST 2006


Actually, it's deleting them one at a time (rapidly) that does it for me.
Selecting a large group and DEL or SHIFT-DEL doesn't reproduce the problem for me.


Regards,
Tim Schafer

Jim Horner said the following on 8/24/2006 3:27 PM:
> I had the exact problem yesterday. I am using the exact same namespace. I just 
> figured it was my email client, KMail, and my solution was to delete 10 mails 
> at a time... I wanted to delete 142 emails at once, I highlighted all of 
> them, shift-delete and was not able to complete the delete action... KMail 
> crashed, if I remember correctly so I did not check the syslog of the server.
> 
> On Thursday 24 August 2006 18:18, Tim Schafer wrote:
>> I can  consistently reproduce a crash in dovecot:
>> Select 20 or more messages and copy them to a test folder.
>> Go into that test folder and SHIFT-DEL the messages rapidly (holding down
>> SHIFT-DEL works best)
>>
>> Just rapidly DELing them (even holding down DEL) doesn't do it (unless it's
>> the Trash folder)
>>
>> I'm using the following namespace (in case that's relevant)
>>
>> namespace private {
>>    separator = .
>>    prefix = INBOX.
>>    inbox = yes
>> }
>>
>> The /var/log/syslog for the session reads:
>> Aug 24 14:58:54 hostname dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc7 starting up
>> Aug 24 14:58:55 hostname slapd[7243]: conn=147 fd=9 ACCEPT from
>> IP=127.0.0.1:41074 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Aug 24 14:58:55 hostname slapd[7243]:
>> conn=147 op=0 BIND dn="" method=128 Aug 24 14:58:55 hostname slapd[7243]:
>> conn=147 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Aug 24 14:59:09 hostname dovecot:
>> auth(default): client in:
>> AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Ilip=192.168.0.7^Irip=192.168.0.100 Aug 24
>> 14:59:09 hostname dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT^I1^I Aug 24
>> 14:59:09 hostname dovecot: auth(default): client in:
>> CONT^I1^IAHRdfmkerjejfkdeie Aug 24 14:59:09 hostname dovecot:
>> auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=username Aug 24 14:59:09 hostname
>> dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I1^I10081^I1 Aug 24 14:59:09
>> hostname dovecot: auth(default): master out:
>> USER^I1^Iusername^Isystem_user=username^Iuid=1000^Igid=100^Ihome=/home/user
>>name Aug 24 14:59:09 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<username>,
>> method=plain, rip=192.168.0.100, lip=192.168.0.7 Aug 24 14:59:10 hostname
>> dovecot: auth(default): client in:
>> AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Ilip=192.168.0.7^Irip=192.168.0.100 Aug 24
>> 14:59:10 hostname dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT^I1^I Aug 24
>> 14:59:10 hostname dovecot: auth(default): client in:
>> CONT^I1^IAHRdfmkerjejfkdeie Aug 24 14:59:10 hostname dovecot:
>> auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=username Aug 24 14:59:10 hostname
>> dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I2^I10082^I1 Aug 24 14:59:10
>> hostname dovecot: auth(default): master out:
>> USER^I2^Iusername^Isystem_user=username^Iuid=1000^Igid=100^Ihome=/home/user
>>name Aug 24 14:59:10 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<username>,
>> method=plain, rip=192.168.0.100, lip=192.168.0.7 Aug 24 14:59:12 hostname
>> dovecot: auth(default): client in:
>> AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Ilip=192.168.0.7^Irip=192.168.0.100 Aug 24
>> 14:59:12 hostname dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT^I1^I Aug 24
>> 14:59:12 hostname dovecot: auth(default): client in:
>> CONT^I1^IAHRdfmkerjejfkdeie Aug 24 14:59:12 hostname dovecot:
>> auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=username Aug 24 14:59:12 hostname
>> dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I3^I10085^I1 Aug 24 14:59:12
>> hostname dovecot: auth(default): master out:
>> USER^I3^Iusername^Isystem_user=username^Iuid=1000^Igid=100^Ihome=/home/user
>>name Aug 24 14:59:12 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<username>,
>> method=plain, rip=192.168.0.100, lip=192.168.0.7 Aug 24 14:59:14 hostname
>> dovecot: IMAP(username): Disconnected
>> Aug 24 14:59:14 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected:
>> rip=192.168.0.100, lip=192.168.0.7 Aug 24 14:59:14 hostname last message
>> repeated 2 times
>> Aug 24 14:59:14 hostname dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting
>> down Aug 24 14:59:14 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected:
>> rip=192.168.0.100, lip=192.168.0.7 Aug 24 14:59:14 hostname slapd[7243]:
>> conn=147 op=1 UNBIND
>> Aug 24 14:59:14 hostname slapd[7243]: conn=147 fd=9 closed


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