smtpd crashes
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From: Ralf Hildebrandt on 2 Jan 2010 04:32 Today I found: Dec 31 20:05:54 mail-ausfall kernel: [876822.781710] smtpd[27410] general protection ip:80813d8 sp:bf9c2d68 error:0 in smtpd[8048000+53000] Jan 1 21:22:23 mail-ausfall kernel: [967812.555067] smtpd[1590] general protection ip:80813d8 sp:bfbebe28 error:0 in smtpd[8048000+53000] Jan 2 04:36:23 mail-ausfall kernel: [993852.201068] smtpd[5253] general protection ip:80813d8 sp:bfd2aa38 error:0 in smtpd[8048000+53000] but these are not backed by any "error" or "fatal" entries in the log; instead I found these: Jan 1 20:19:41 mail-ausfall postfix/verify[26329]: fatal: close database /var/lib/postfix/verify.db: No such file or directory Jan 1 21:52:04 mail-ausfall postfix/verify[31780]: fatal: close database /var/lib/postfix/verify.db: No such file or directory Jan 2 04:09:40 mail-ausfall postfix/verify[2919]: fatal: close database /var/lib/postfix/verify.db: No such file or directory Jan 2 04:42:40 mail-ausfall postfix/verify[4901]: fatal: close database /var/lib/postfix/verify.db: No such file or directory Jan 2 10:17:55 mail-ausfall postfix/postscreen[17151]: fatal: close database /var/lib/postfix/ps_cache.db: No such file or directory Which also baffle me, since: # ls -l /var/lib/postfix/verify.db -rw-r--r-- 1 postfix postfix 20844544 2. Jan 10:28 /var/lib/postfix/verify.db # ls -l /var/lib/postfix/ps_cache.db -rw------- 1 postfix postfix 6131712 2. Jan 10:24 /var/lib/postfix/ps_cache.db I updated to postfix-2.7-20100101 these minutes; maybe something changes. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de
From: Ralf Hildebrandt on 2 Jan 2010 04:37 * Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de>: > I updated to postfix-2.7-20100101 these minutes; maybe something > changes. postfix-2.7-20091228-nonprod was the old version that caused all the logentries. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de
From: Wietse Venema on 2 Jan 2010 09:34 Ralf Hildebrandt: > * Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de>: > > > I updated to postfix-2.7-20100101 these minutes; maybe something > > changes. > > postfix-2.7-20091228-nonprod was the old version that caused all the > logentries. Introduced 20091227, fixed 20091230 (dangling pointer in event manager). Sometimes non-production software has a defect. Wietse
From: Len Conrad on 2 Jan 2010 09:34 >Dec 31 20:05:54 mail-ausfall kernel: [876822.781710] smtpd[27410] general protection ip:80813d8 sp:bf9c2d68 error:0 in smtpd[8048000+53000] ....I have none of these. >Jan 1 20:19:41 mail-ausfall postfix/verify[26329]: fatal: close database /var/lib/postfix/verify.db: No such file or directory I don't use verify anymore, but we get these each time we stop postfix: >Jan 2 10:17:55 mail-ausfall postfix/postscreen[17151]: fatal: close database >/var/lib/postfix/ps_cache.db: No such file or directory Jan 2 09:26:06 mx7 postfix/master[32550]: terminating on signal 15 Jan 2 09:26:06 mx7 postfix/postscreen[32558]: fatal: close database /var/db/postfix/ps_cache.db: No such file or directory mx7# egrep -i "postscreen" /var/log/maillog | awk '{ print $6}' | sort -f | uniq -ic | sort -rfn 404335 PASS 347830 BLACKLISTED 60258 PREGREET 2124 HANGUP 593 warning: 193 WHITELISTED 35 fatal: <<<<<<<<< mx7# postconf mail_version mail_version = 2.7-20091209 Wietse gave a patch but I'm waiting for it to be fixed in a snapshot. Len
From: Wietse Venema on 2 Jan 2010 09:56
Len Conrad: > > >Dec 31 20:05:54 mail-ausfall kernel: [876822.781710] smtpd[27410] general protection ip:80813d8 sp:bf9c2d68 error:0 in smtpd[8048000+53000] > > ...I have none of these. > > >Jan 1 20:19:41 mail-ausfall postfix/verify[26329]: fatal: close database /var/lib/postfix/verify.db: No such file or directory > > I don't use verify anymore, but we get these each time we stop postfix: > > >Jan 2 10:17:55 mail-ausfall postfix/postscreen[17151]: fatal: close database > >/var/lib/postfix/ps_cache.db: No such file or directory That is that stupid but HARMLESS Berkeley DB bug where they barf when a process closes a database after a it fork()s. I'm running a DB version that does not do such things, so it did not show up in my testing. I'll fix this in the next release. Wietse |