On 5.12.2011, at 1.17, Amaury Le Pivain wrote: > I have an old physical freebsd 6.2 server running Dovecot 1.0.7. I wanted to > virtualised it. > > So, I did a dd from the physical server and then I restored it on then now > Virtual Machine. > > I booted the server, all services are running just fine excepted Dovecot. > > I tried to investigate the log as much as I can but i'm not getting any > usefull pieces of information. The only entries I have in the log files are > the following: > > /*log: /var/log/messages:*/ > > /Dec 5 09:53:35 hostname kernel: pid 33815 (imap), uid 0: exited on signal 11
This means it crashes. A gdb backtrace might tell why... But I think it would be less trouble to simply upgrade Dovecot to a newer version (at least v1.2.x) where there's a good chance that this has already been fixed.
