[Dovecot] 2.0.5 Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server.

Robert Fantini robertfantini at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 00:54:18 EEST 2010


check your mail log, if you get this:
Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info

then it could be related to this bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566844

if you do have that issue let me know, and I'll look up our notes to
post a work around.


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Veiko Kukk <veiko.kukk at ekp.ee> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Upgraded from 1.2.x to 2.0.5, converted configuration as described in
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 and now I'm unable to log in to imap
> server. Dovecot error.log shows:
>
> Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth
> server. my pid=13338, input bytes=0
> Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth
> server. my pid=13364, input bytes=0
> Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth
> server. my pid=13337, input bytes=0
> Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth
> server. my pid=13350, input bytes=0
> Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth
> server. my pid=13335, input bytes=0
> Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth
> server. my pid=13360, input bytes=0
>
> I'm using pam with winbind for authentication.
>
> /etc/pam.d/dovecot contains:
>
> auth    required pam_winbind.so
> account sufficient pam_winbind.so
>
> And it used to work perfectly with 1.1 and 1.2 series of dovecot.
>
> What could be the problem with 2.0.5?
>
> --
> Veiko
>


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