At Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:44:03 -0400 (EDT), Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
OK, I've added it, it's fixed in 2.3.2-3. Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
