Re: [Exim] freebsd 5.2.1 + exim 4.30

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Author: Andrew Thomson
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] freebsd 5.2.1 + exim 4.30
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 09:30, Andrew Thomson wrote:
> Interesting.. it seems we've all encountered various problems with this
> combination!
>
> My problem is the following:
>
> mx2# telnet 0 25
> Trying 0.0.0.0...
> Connected to 0.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mx2 ESMTP Exim 4.30 Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:30:45 +1000
> 421 mx2 lost input connection
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> I've tried re-installing the exim-ldap2 port however I still have the
> same problem.
>
> This is with the following:
>
> -- 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3
> -- exim-ldap2-4.30_2
>
> Intriguing.
>
> ajt.


I just tried a more comprehenisve portupgrade and I still experience the
same problem.

mx2# portupgrade -Rf exim-ldap2

ajt.


>
> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:00, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
> > * Yann Golanski <yann@???> [20040308 12:43]: wrote:
> > > Quoth Woon Wai Keen @ doubleukay.com on Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 20:24:12 +1100
> > > > Is anyone using this combination?
> > >
> > > I am using 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 and exim-4.30_1 with no problems.
> > >
> > > > I was previously using freebsd 5.1 +
> > > > exim 4.30 and it worked smoothly. However, after I upgraded (cvsup, make
> > > > build/installkernel, make build/installworld) to 5.2.1, exim suddenly
> > > > started barfing.
> > > >
> > > > I get lots of segfaults like these:
> > > >
> > > > (/var/log/dmesg.today)
> > > > pid 97038 (exim-4.30-0), uid 26: exited on signal 11
> > > > pid 97042 (exim-4.30-0), uid 26: exited on signal 11
> > > > pid 97249 (exim-4.30-0), uid 26: exited on signal 11
> > > > pid 97323 (exim-4.30-0), uid 26: exited on signal 11
> > > >
> > > > And lots of strange 'space check failed' warnings like these:
> > > >
> > > > (/var/log/exim/mainlog)
> > > > 2004-03-07 03:58:21 spool directory space check failed: space=0 inodes=0
> > > > 2004-03-07 03:58:36 spool directory space check failed: space=0 inodes=0
> >
> >
> > For the record, I had the same problem on two 5.x servers after I
> > installed exim from the ports tree. Well, same OS version, same Exim
> > version. On one such server, I have
> >
> > mailserver# df -h
> > Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/ad0s1a    34G   2.2G    29G     7%    /
> > devfs         1.0K   1.0K     0B   100%    /dev

> >
> > There is sufficient space, but in both cases, I happened to have put in
> > two config params in the Exim configure file:
> >
> > #check_spool_inodes            = 100
> > #check_spool_space             = 20M

> >
> > I had believed those would be useful later, because anyway those two
> > servers do not handle so much mail!
> > After I commented those out and gave exim daemon a -HUP signal the
> > problem disappeared, from both boxes. To be sincere, one box brought the
> > problem first and I commented out those entries. I used the same info
> > from my mind cache to solve the other. I am wondering if this folk has
> > the same entries. Maybe??
> >
> >
> > > > If anyone's using freebsd 5.2.1 and exim 4.30, could you please reply
> > > > and tell me how's it going on your setup? Thanks.
> >
> > You mean like I've mentioned above? Apart from those, I do run Exim 4.30
> > on several boxes here.
> >
> >
> > > Do you have a corrupted hard disk? What's the inode table saying? Any
> > > other messages in the logs? What's your disk usage? What does exim -d
> > > say?
> >
> > I do believe sure his disk is OK for all those questions ;)
> >
> >         cheers
> >        - wash
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