On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:36:49PM +0100, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > He suggested that the trace is unreliable. Perhaps a bug in RHEL 3's > version of OpenSSL messes up the stack. That would also explain why nobody > else seems to have this problem. FYI I also know a system that has problems with hung Cyrus processes. AFAIR they have problems with pop3s only, but that may be because there are more POP3 than IMAP users, I don't know. The system in question runs 2.3.8 on Debian Etch currently. I intend to help diagnose that system but had no time so far; they're now running a script that does a POP3 connection every couple of minutes and if that takes too long it restarts Cyrus. There is nothing interesting in the logs: Oct 15 02:39:31 host cyrus/master[6102]: about to exec /usr/local/cyrus/sbin/pop3d Oct 15 02:39:31 host cyrus/pop3s[6102]: executed Oct 15 02:39:31 host cyrus/pop3s[6102]: accepted connection ... and that's about it, nothing else is logged about the stuck process. As can be seen the process gets stuck just after it has been created, so "-U 1" can not help. OTOH there are a lot of messages like the following: Oct 16 14:13:10 host cyrus/master[26136]: about to exec /usr/local/cyrus/sbin/pop3d Oct 16 14:13:10 host cyrus/pop3s[26136]: executed Oct 16 14:13:10 host cyrus/pop3s[26136]: accepted connection Oct 16 14:13:10 host cyrus/pop3s[26136]: pop3s failed:XXXXXXXXXXXX [XX.XXX.XX.XXX] Oct 16 14:13:10 host cyrus/pop3s[26136]: Fatal error: tls_start_servertls() failed Oct 16 14:13:10 host cyrus/master[15923]: process 26136 exited, status 75 Oct 16 14:13:10 host cyrus/master[15923]: service pop3s pid 26136 in BUSY state: terminated abnormally Any idea what's causing that? Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html