N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote (on Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:37:36PM -0400): > Wietse Venema wrote (on Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:28:12PM -0400): > > N. Yaakov Ziskind: > > > Uh-oh. Just upgraded a Ubuntu box to the latest and greatesti (jaunty > > > jackelope), and postfix is dying all over the place: > > > > > > Apr 24 14:06:25 chocolate postfix/smtpd[5176]: connect from > > > unknown[unknown] > > > Apr 24 14:06:25 chocolate postfix/smtpd[5176]: lost connection after > > > CONNECT from unknown[unknown] > > > Apr 24 14:06:25 chocolate postfix/smtpd[5176]: disconnect from > > > unknown[unknown] > > > Apr 24 14:06:25 chocolate kernel: [ 1895.725677] smtpd[5176]: segfault at > > > b0d12950 eip b7c560b0 esp bfd1241c error 6 > > > Apr 24 14:06:25 chocolate postfix/master[5141]: warning: process > > > /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 5176 killed by signal 11 > > > Apr 24 14:06:25 chocolate postfix/master[5141]: warning: > > > /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd:bad command startup -- throttling > > > > > > and on and on. How in the heck did I manage to shoot myself in the foot? > > > > DLL hell. Typical causes are: > > > > - Mixing different versions of Berkeley DB, OpenSSL, SASL, etc. > > For example, Postfix was built with version X, but nsswitch.conf > > functions are built with version Y. > > > > An investigation with "ldd" usually shows what the discrepancy is. > > > > Wietse > > Oh? I don't know what I'm looking at: > > # ldd smtpd > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f3e000) > libpostfix-master.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpostfix-master.so.1 (0xb7f2f000) > libpostfix-tls.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpostfix-tls.so.1 (0xb7f20000) > libpostfix-dns.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpostfix-dns.so.1 (0xb7f19000) > libpostfix-global.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpostfix-global.so.1 (0xb7ee9000) > libpostfix-util.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpostfix-util.so.1 (0xb7ebc000) > libssl.so.0.9.8 => /lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0xb7e76000) > libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /lib/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0xb7d2a000) > libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 (0xb7d11000) > libdb-4.6.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.6.so (0xb7be2000) > libnsl.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1 (0xb7bc9000) > libresolv.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libresolv.so.2 (0xb7bb3000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7a50000) > libdb-4.7.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.7.so (0xb78fb000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb78f7000) > libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb78e1000) > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb78c8000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f3f000) > > This box is stock ubuntu, and i only use ssl, postfix and samba, so i'm > wondering what i did wrong. i'm not using sasl, tls or anything other > than postgrey added on. > > should i just remove postfix and re-install? is it safe to keep main.cf > and the files i created/modified (transport, recipient_checks, > whitelist, helo_access, aliases and virtual)? > > Thanks!
To answer my own question: apt-get remove postfix ; apt-get install postfix got things running again. Thanks to all who looked at this.
