I've just started getting this error on Gentoo Linux. I've been running dovecot-2.3.2.1 for some time and didn't notice it. I recently updated glibc from 2.26-r7 to 2.27-r6 and dovecot was hanging on startup.
Recompiling dovecot fixed the hang, but now I'm seeing the same error message as below. Stroller (please CC me on replies) On 4/10/18, Jerry <je...@seibercom.net> wrote: > > Error message upon boot up: > > doveconf: error: t_readlink(/var/run/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: > readlink() failed: No such file or directory > > Starting dovecot. > > Dovecot appears to start correctly