> From: Bron Gondwana [mailto:brong@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 8:22 PM > To: Simon Matter > Cc: Rosenbaum, Larry M.; Bron Gondwana; info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: v2.3.15 IMAP connection hangs > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:04:05PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote: > > >> From: Simon Matter [mailto:simon.matter@xxxxxxxxx] > > >>... > > >> >> Long shot - but you might want to try it with the attached > patch > > >> >> applied. > > >> >> It rewrites the zlib handling logic quite a lot, though it > wasn't > > >> >> originally > > >> >> designed to deal with your problem! I'm going to push it to > CVS > > >> soon. > > >> > > > >> > I already have the patch installed because we have an old > version of > > >> Zlib. > > >> > Could the patch be causing the problem? > > >> > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I have the same patch in my RPMs and tested it on a ancient > OS/zlib and > > >> didn't see any problems. Of course it doesn't mean much because > I'm > > >> running Linux. > > >> Did you already try to build and run without zlib support? > > > > > > I hadn't thought of building it without zlib support. > > > > > > I have just installed a newer zlib, removed the patch, and rebuilt > Cyrus > > > IMAP with the new zlib. Now it works! > > > > Good, but I'm sure Bron would still like to know why it didn't work > before... > > I sure would! Given that we've been running that patch on top of CVS > for > a few months not (Linux with a newer zlib) without problems, I'd love > to > know what's wrong with the patch - particularly since I'm planning to > add > it to CVS if there's nothing else wrong with it. > > So it goes into an infinite loop on signals_poll, obviously. > > Can you please try building with the patch, but with the new zlib? With the new zlib and the patch, it hangs. Perhaps the problem with the patch is Solaris-specific. ---- 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
