Postfix

[Michael Fleming]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 21:32 +0000, Robert Spangler wrote:
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> I have noticed that Postfix is no longer running so I decided to restart it 
> and I receive the following error:
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> Starting postfix: ./postfix: line 34: 30371 Segmentation 
> fault      /usr/sbin/postalias ${alias_database//,} 2>/dev/null
>                                                            [FAILED]
> 
> So I tried to uninstall and then reinstall.  Yum doesn't find a package and 
> apt-get installs postfix-2.1.5-2.4.FC3

That's the  post-release errata version, you'll want to install that
package rather than the original ISO version. 

> So I uninstalled this version and installed the version from the DVD ISO.
> 
> I receive the following error message:
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> Starting postfix: /etc/init.d/postfix: line 34: 31945 Segmentation 
> fault      /usr/sbin/postalias "$alias_database" 2>/dev/null
>                                                            [FAILED]
> 
> Could someone please point me in the right direction to fix this?
> 

It sounds like a possible hardware issue (being a SIGSEGV / signal 11 -
memory issues? I'm assuming the FC build is clean :-D) so the following
document and a copy of gdb / strace is your friend.

http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html

> Fedora Core 3

Same version here ( but running a postfix snapshot with similar problems
of my own making...)

> Thnx

Cheers,
Michael.

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