FC2: updates + 2.6.9 kernel = broken dovecot?

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Mon Nov 22 00:51:18 UTC 2004


Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
>>> I noticed the following during the bootup:
>>>
>>> dovecot failed:
>>> > Nov 17 22:14:42 kjc386 dovecot: Fatal:
>>> > Nov 17 22:14:42 kjc386 dovecot: listen(143) failed: Cannot assign 
>>> requested address
>>> > Nov 17 22:14:42 kjc386 dovecot: dovecot startup failed
>>>
>>> "netstat -l" doesn't show anything bound to the IMAP port.  And this 
>>> used to work under 2.6.8-1.521:
>>
>>
>>
>> Probably xinetd is controlling port 143 already? Check that no xinetd
>> controlled IMAP configuration is active from /etc/xinetd.d/*. "chkconfig
>> --list" can tell you too.

I just rebooted kernel-2.6.8-1.521, and dovecot came right up:

 > Nov 21 19:47:21 kjc386 dovecot: dovecot startup succeeded

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
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cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us




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