[Dovecot] IMAP crashes with signal 10 (SIGBUS)

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Dec 15 22:34:38 EET 2004


On 14.12.2004, at 04:28, Joseph Tam wrote:

> Any idea on what's causing this?
>
> Description:
>  	imap process crashed with SIGBUS.
>
> Backtrace:
>  	#0  mbox_file_seek (ibox=0x8d9b0, view=0x8dc38, seq=2, 
> deleted_r=0xffbef40c) at mbox-file.c:119
..

It crashes because the returned data address isn't 64bit aligned. The 
code tries to do the alignmentation right, but I guess there's some bug 
in it. I'll try to look into this soon.
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