Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Postfix service: syslog reports "fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running" every second
Thanks, Jim. That is indeed the suggested cause that I find all over the web, however even if I stop the postfix-service, then manually delete the .pid and .lock file and then restart the service, it still reports that it's already running. I don't see how it could be. Also, the very same package worked flawlessly on r151014, but now on r151022 it starts bugging me. On 2017-07-30 22:00, Jim Klimov wrote: On July 30, 2017 5:42:31 PM GMT+02:00, Andries Annema wrote: In the mean time I tried upgrading the separate test-system from r151022 "vanilla" to the CE-edition - r151022i by now - hoping this might somehow also solve the below postfix "already running" error. But, it didn't. Again I tried the solution that worked on r151014 and also a reboot, but without success. This "Postfix mail system is already running"-issue is all over the internet - not specifically on Solarish-systems, that is - but I am clearly missing something here, as I don't seem to get the issue out of there. Is there anyone out there with some ideas on this, pretty please? Thanks. Andries On 2017-07-14 14:45, Andries Annema wrote: Hi all, Have been running postfix from the "ms.omniti.com" publisher for some years now on r151014 without issues. Last week I updated my October 2016 r151014 system to the latest r151014-status, as a first step in the direction of upgrading to the latest LTS. I'm not actually there yet to upgrade to r151022; first I want to make sure all my services and packages run flawlessly on that version. Turns out that being careful pays off. In this update process, postfix got updated to 2.11.9-0.151014:20170214T224831Z. It still works, but /var/log/syslog is filled with a new line ever second stating: " [ID 947731 mail.crit] fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running" And /var/svc/log/network-smtp-postfix:default.log is repeatedly filled with line pairs like: "[ Jul 14 13:48:50 Executing start method ("/opt/omni/sbin/postfix start"). ] [ Jul 14 13:48:51 Stopping because service exited with an error. ] [ Jul 14 13:48:51 Executing start method ("/opt/omni/sbin/postfix start"). ] [ Jul 14 13:48:51 Stopping because service exited with an error. ] [ Jul 14 13:48:51 Failing too quickly, throttling. ]" Simply disabling and re-enabling the SMF service does not help. What did help was this: $ sudo svcadm disable postfix $ sudo fuser -k /var/lib/postfix/master.lock $ sudo rm /var/lib/postfix/master.lock $ sudo rm /var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid $ sudo svcadm enable postfix That, however, was on r151014. On a separate, freshly installed r151022 test-system, I installed this same postfix 2.11.9 package and the same issue emerged. However, the fix that worked on r151014, does not seem to work on r151022. Rebooting doesn't help either. Funny thing is: it does deliver email nicely, despite this restarting issue. I tried downgrading to postfix 2.10.10: problem still exists. Tried downgrading further, to 2.10.2: not possible, because the manifest states a "incorporate" dependency on the "entire@11-0.151014" package. Hm, right... now I'm out of ideas. Any clues? Regards, Andries ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss IIRC the root problem was that some pid-file was left in place before restarting, e.g. by ungraceful reboot or timed-out stop with a kill. -- Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Postfix service: syslog reports "fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running" every second
On July 30, 2017 5:42:31 PM GMT+02:00, Andries Annema wrote: >In the mean time I tried upgrading the separate test-system from >r151022 >"vanilla" to the CE-edition - r151022i by now - hoping this might >somehow also solve the below postfix "already running" error. But, it >didn't. > >Again I tried the solution that worked on r151014 and also a reboot, >but >without success. > >This "Postfix mail system is already running"-issue is all over the >internet - not specifically on Solarish-systems, that is - but I am >clearly missing something here, as I don't seem to get the issue out of > >there. > >Is there anyone out there with some ideas on this, pretty please? > >Thanks. > >Andries > > >On 2017-07-14 14:45, Andries Annema wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Have been running postfix from the "ms.omniti.com" publisher for some > >> years now on r151014 without issues. >> Last week I updated my October 2016 r151014 system to the latest >> r151014-status, as a first step in the direction of upgrading to the >> latest LTS. I'm not actually there yet to upgrade to r151022; first I > >> want to make sure all my services and packages run flawlessly on that > >> version. Turns out that being careful pays off. >> >> In this update process, postfix got updated to >> 2.11.9-0.151014:20170214T224831Z. >> It still works, but /var/log/syslog is filled with a new line ever >> second stating: >> >> " [ID 947731 mail.crit] fatal: the Postfix mail system is already > >> running" >> >> And /var/svc/log/network-smtp-postfix:default.log is repeatedly >filled >> with line pairs like: >> "[ Jul 14 13:48:50 Executing start method ("/opt/omni/sbin/postfix >> start"). ] >> [ Jul 14 13:48:51 Stopping because service exited with an error. ] >> [ Jul 14 13:48:51 Executing start method ("/opt/omni/sbin/postfix >> start"). ] >> [ Jul 14 13:48:51 Stopping because service exited with an error. ] >> [ Jul 14 13:48:51 Failing too quickly, throttling. ]" >> >> Simply disabling and re-enabling the SMF service does not help. >> What did help was this: >> $ sudo svcadm disable postfix >> $ sudo fuser -k /var/lib/postfix/master.lock >> $ sudo rm /var/lib/postfix/master.lock >> $ sudo rm /var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid >> $ sudo svcadm enable postfix >> >> That, however, was on r151014. >> On a separate, freshly installed r151022 test-system, I installed >this >> same postfix 2.11.9 package and the same issue emerged. >> However, the fix that worked on r151014, does not seem to work on >> r151022. >> Rebooting doesn't help either. >> >> Funny thing is: it does deliver email nicely, despite this restarting > >> issue. >> >> I tried downgrading to postfix 2.10.10: problem still exists. >> Tried downgrading further, to 2.10.2: not possible, because the >> manifest states a "incorporate" dependency on the >"entire@11-0.151014" >> package. Hm, right... now I'm out of ideas. >> Any clues? >> >> Regards, >> Andries >> > >___ >OmniOS-discuss mailing list >OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com >http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss IIRC the root problem was that some pid-file was left in place before restarting, e.g. by ungraceful reboot or timed-out stop with a kill. -- Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Postfix service: syslog reports "fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running" every second
In the mean time I tried upgrading the separate test-system from r151022 "vanilla" to the CE-edition - r151022i by now - hoping this might somehow also solve the below postfix "already running" error. But, it didn't. Again I tried the solution that worked on r151014 and also a reboot, but without success. This "Postfix mail system is already running"-issue is all over the internet - not specifically on Solarish-systems, that is - but I am clearly missing something here, as I don't seem to get the issue out of there. Is there anyone out there with some ideas on this, pretty please? Thanks. Andries On 2017-07-14 14:45, Andries Annema wrote: Hi all, Have been running postfix from the "ms.omniti.com" publisher for some years now on r151014 without issues. Last week I updated my October 2016 r151014 system to the latest r151014-status, as a first step in the direction of upgrading to the latest LTS. I'm not actually there yet to upgrade to r151022; first I want to make sure all my services and packages run flawlessly on that version. Turns out that being careful pays off. In this update process, postfix got updated to 2.11.9-0.151014:20170214T224831Z. It still works, but /var/log/syslog is filled with a new line ever second stating: " [ID 947731 mail.crit] fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running" And /var/svc/log/network-smtp-postfix:default.log is repeatedly filled with line pairs like: "[ Jul 14 13:48:50 Executing start method ("/opt/omni/sbin/postfix start"). ] [ Jul 14 13:48:51 Stopping because service exited with an error. ] [ Jul 14 13:48:51 Executing start method ("/opt/omni/sbin/postfix start"). ] [ Jul 14 13:48:51 Stopping because service exited with an error. ] [ Jul 14 13:48:51 Failing too quickly, throttling. ]" Simply disabling and re-enabling the SMF service does not help. What did help was this: $ sudo svcadm disable postfix $ sudo fuser -k /var/lib/postfix/master.lock $ sudo rm /var/lib/postfix/master.lock $ sudo rm /var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid $ sudo svcadm enable postfix That, however, was on r151014. On a separate, freshly installed r151022 test-system, I installed this same postfix 2.11.9 package and the same issue emerged. However, the fix that worked on r151014, does not seem to work on r151022. Rebooting doesn't help either. Funny thing is: it does deliver email nicely, despite this restarting issue. I tried downgrading to postfix 2.10.10: problem still exists. Tried downgrading further, to 2.10.2: not possible, because the manifest states a "incorporate" dependency on the "entire@11-0.151014" package. Hm, right... now I'm out of ideas. Any clues? Regards, Andries ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss