Package: libc6 Severity: wishlist A user sent me the following report:
> Updated this morning (apt-get upgrade), on unstable (i386). Since I > pass -u, I could tell that I didn't want to be in X while doing this, so > bailed to tty, stopped gdm, ran the upgrade (upgrade of libc6). Since > it upgraded libc, it told me it wanted to restart services; fine, I was > in a hurry, didn't pay attention. > > On restarting X, and opening my mail client, I found that I couldn't > access the local imap server. imap-auth died. Stirrings of panic. > Test with mutt. No login. I didn't remember a dovecot upgrade. Check > two other machines running it ... no, they're okay ... but they're > older. Full-scale panic proposed as the proper response, narrowly > defeated in debates on the floor. > > To cut to the chase, it turns out that dovecot wasn't tagged as a > service needing a restart when libc was installed. And presumably, > whatever is there listening on the port (imap-login?) was having > problems whenever it tried to get an imap-auth. /etc/init.d/dovecot > stop followed by start, everything's fine. But shouldn't dovecot get > tagged as a service needing restart, when the libc updates require it? Can /etc/init.d/dovecot be added to the list of services restarted by libc6? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
