Package: postfix Version: 3.11.0-3 Severity: important When upgrading from 3.10.6-4 to 3.10.8-1 the upgrade succeeded, but nbdb_reindex segfaulted and Postfix was left in a non-working state:
Mar 9 04:17:34 bongo postfix/smtpd[4831]: fatal: open dictionary: expecting
"type:name" form instead of ":/etc/aliases"
Mar 9 04:17:35 bongo postfix/master[3718]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/sbin/smtpd pid 4831 exit status 1
Mar 9 04:17:35 bongo postfix/master[3718]: warning:
/usr/lib/postfix/sbin/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
The issue can be more easily seen just with newaliases:
root@bongo:~# LANG=C comm -23 <(postconf -n) <(postconf -d)
alias_maps = $alias_database
biff = no
compatibility_level = 3.11
cyrus_sasl_config_path = /etc/postfix/sasl
default_transport = uucp
inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 ::1
mailbox_size_limit = $message_size_limit
message_size_limit = 1000000000
mydestination = $myhostname localhost (elided)
recipient_delimiter = +
relayhost = bofh
respectful_logging = no
sender_canonical_maps = texthash:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical
smtp_dns_support_level = disabled
virtual_alias_maps = texthash:/etc/postfix/virtual
root@bongo:~# newaliases
postalias: warning: unsupported dictionary type: . Is the postfix- package
installed?
postalias: fatal: unsupported map type:
[Exit 1]
root@bongo:~# postconf alias_database
alias_database = $default_database_type:/etc/aliases
root@bongo:~# postconf default_database_type
default_database_type = cdb
root@bongo:~#
The solution for me has been to EXPLICITLY set $default_database_type:
after setting it to its default the diff does not change, but now
everything works again.
root@bongo:~# LANG=C comm -12 <(postconf -n) <(postconf -d)
default_database_type = cdb
myhostname = bongo.bofh.it
root@bongo:~# postconf default_database_type
default_database_type = cdb
root@bongo:~# newaliases
root@bongo:~#
#0 vbuf_print (bp=bp@entry=0x55879f3484e0,
format=0x55876f981016 "the %s service is disabled",
ap=ap@entry=0x7ffd2c554d70)
at /build/reproducible-path/postfix-3.11.0/src/util/vbuf_print.c:280
#1 0x00007f22d8ff2fad in vstring_vsprintf (vp=0x55879f3484e0,
format=<optimized out>, ap=ap@entry=0x7ffd2c554d70)
at /build/reproducible-path/postfix-3.11.0/src/util/vstring.c:639
#2 0x00007f22d8ff3058 in vstring_sprintf (vp=vp@entry=0x55879f3484e0,
format=format@entry=0x55876f981016 "the %s service is disabled")
at /build/reproducible-path/postfix-3.11.0/src/util/vstring.c:629
#3 0x000055876f97f97d in nbdb_process (leg_type=0x55879f347f40 "hash",
source_path=source_path@entry=0x55879f347f45 "/etc/aliases",
why=0x55879f3484e0) at ./src/nbdb_reindexd/nbdb_process.c:102
#4 0x000055876f98009a in nbdb_service (
stream=stream@entry=0x7f22d90122c0 <vstream_fstd>,
service=<optimized out>, argv=0x7ffd2c555448)
at ./src/nbdb_reindexd/nbdb_reindexd.c:224
#5 0x00007f22d90695be in single_server_main (argc=<optimized out>,
argv=<optimized out>, service=service@entry=0x55876f97fe50 <nbdb_service>)
at /build/reproducible-path/postfix-3.11.0/src/master/single_server.c:782
#6 0x000055876f97f3a0 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>)
at ./src/nbdb_reindexd/nbdb_reindexd.c:305
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.18.12+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages postfix depends on:
ii adduser 3.154
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.92
ii init-system-helpers 1.69
ii libc6 2.42-13
ii libdb5.3t64 5.3.28+dfsg2-11
ii libicu78 78.2-2
ii libnsl2 1.3.0-3+b4
ii libsasl2-2 2.1.28+dfsg1-10
ii libssl3t64 3.5.5-1
ii libtlsrpt0 0.5.0.-1
ii netbase 6.5
ii postfix-cdb 3.11.0-3
ii postfix-lmdb 3.11.0-3
Versions of packages postfix recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20260223
ii python3 3.13.9-3
ii ssl-cert 1.1.3
Versions of packages postfix suggests:
ii bsd-mailx [mail-reader] 8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1.1
ii dovecot-core [dovecot-common] 1:2.4.2+dfsg1-4
ii libsasl2-modules 2.1.28+dfsg1-10
ii mutt [mail-reader] 2.2.13-1+b1
ii postfix-doc 3.11.0-3
pn postfix-ldap <none>
pn postfix-mongodb <none>
pn postfix-mta-sts-resolver <none>
pn postfix-mysql <none>
pn postfix-pcre <none>
pn postfix-pgsql <none>
pn postfix-sqlite <none>
ii procmail 3.24+really3.22-5
pn resolvconf <none>
pn ufw <none>
-- debconf information excluded
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ciao,
Marco
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