[Dovecot] imap killed with signal 6 (including backtrace)

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Thu Aug 16 21:25:01 EEST 2007


* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:52 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > Found this today multiple times for the same user:
> > 
> > Aug 16 16:59:38 postamt dovecot: IMAP(username): file strfuncs.c: line 165 (p_strndup): assertion failed: (max_chars != (size_t)-1)
> > Aug 16 16:59:38 postamt dovecot: IMAP(username): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80c6d53] -> imap(i_fatal+0) [0x80c6795] -> imap(p_strndup+0x38)
> > [0x80d8316] -> imap(t_strndup+0x22) [0x80d86d7] -> imap(cmd_create+0xb5) [0x8059a39] -> imap [0x805eb09] -> imap
> > [0x805ecf9] -> imap(_client_input+0x116) [0x805ee1b] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x191) [0x80cebf8] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x20)
> > [0x80cde56] -> imap(main+0xb8) [0x8069cbf] -> /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7dc8030] -> imap [0x8058361]
> > Aug 16 16:59:38 postamt dovecot: child 11760 (imap) killed with signal 6
> 
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/33690bb286af probably fixes it

Nope, I did a hg pull yesterday and restarted dovecot.

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