postfix bug? kernel bug?

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> I'm setting it up with amavisd-new, which requires setting up postfix
> to listen on a port (so postfix relays to amavisd which relays to
> postfix).  The initial connection to postfix (port 25) is fine.  The
> mail is processed by amavisd fine.  When amavisd tries to connect to
> postfix again, I get this:
> 
> ==> /var/log/messages <==
> Aug 31 23:33:20 foo kernel: smtpd[1665]: segfault at 00000030bf300e20 rip 00000030bf206294 rsp 0000007fbfffd8b0 error 7
> 
> ==> /var/log/maillog <==
> Aug 31 23:33:20 foo postfix/master[1394]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 1665 killed by signal 11
> Aug 31 23:33:20 foo postfix/master[1394]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

Does this happen every time, or sporadically?

Back out the IPv6 and TLS / AUTH patches and see if you can reproduce it.

If you can, follow the steps in 
/usr/share/doc/postfix-mumble/README-FILES/DEBUG_README (Wietse won't 
support either patch until he merges them for 2.2, so don't waste his time 
sending in reports produced with them applied)

I've been having the same sorts of sporadic stability issues when I apply
the IPv6 patch on recentish RHEL / Fedora boxes with Postfix 2.1.x.

later,
chris