On 16.11.2012, at 16.12, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > We have SLES-11 SP2 Xen VMs running dovecot as IMAP proxies. At VMs > startup, dovecot almost always shows these errors: > > Nov 16 14:29:19 server dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.1.10 starting up (core > dumps disabled) > Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): Initial status > notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process > Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(log): Initial status > notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process > Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(ssl-params): Initial > status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process > Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(log): child 3591 > killed with signal 9 > > As the last line tells, dovecot stops logging information. We have to > restart the dovecot processes to get back normal behaviour. I also tried > to set idle_kill values to services definitions, without success.
You mean this happens when the VM starts up, but if you manually restart it later they don't happen? > Is there a way to prevent these errors? I wonder if it's because of SLES or something else.