On 26.9.2013, at 15.07, Dewey Du <[email protected]> wrote: > My dovecot started with the error below. What's the most possible reason > for the error? > > “2013-08-28 11:41:40 ”master: Info: Dovecot v2.2.5 starting up (core dumps > disabled) > “2013-08-28 11:42:00 ”anvil: Fatal: Error reading configuration: Timeout > reading config from /var/run/dovecot/config
The config process is stuck for some reason. Try to find out what it's doing. Immediately after you start dovecot, find the config process pid, and do: 1) strace -tt -p <pid> (for about a second or so) 2) gdb -p <pid> bt full and mail the results.
