[Bug 646858] Re: upstart unable to correctly track dovecot daemon when managesieve plugin is enabled

[Col. SC Sood(Retd)]

Dear Mr. Jean-Baptiste,

  Thanks a lot.
  I am using squirrelmail on Ubuntu 10.10 now. Dovecot  is working fine.

Regards,
Satish
(Col. SC Sood(Retd))
09216508708



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From: Jean-Baptiste Lallement <jean-baptiste at ubuntu.com>
To: satishsood1 at yahoo.co.in
Sent: Fri, 22 October, 2010 2:53:11 PM
Subject: [Bug 646858] Re: upstart unable to correctly track dovecot daemon when 
managesieve plugin is enabled

** Tags added: maverick
** Tags removed: regression-potential

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upstart unable to correctly track dovecot daemon when managesieve plugin is 
enabled
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646858
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Status in “dovecot” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu: New
Status in “dovecot” source package in Maverick: Fix Released
Status in “upstart” source package in Maverick: New

Bug description:

When the managesieve plugin is enabled it seems that dovecot forks once more 
than what upstart expects. Upstart tracks the wrong pid with "expect fork" set.

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Original description

Binary package hint: dovecot-postfix

Dovecot on Maverick is now using upstart to launch dovecot. When dovecot-postfix 
is installed, the dovecot must have some component as root (for SASL 
authentification purpose, in order to write to postfix chroot). Problem is, the 
system can start dovecot on boot, but any attempt into using restart dovecot 
will result in a hang of upstart. CTRL+C can cancel it, but then dovecot is in a 
strange state, with half the processus presents in memory. This is not the 
correct behavior, as we except a smooth restart of such an important service of 
the mail (especially if SASL authentification of postfix is involved).

As a workaround, I replace the symlink to upstart by the old init.d original 
script from ubuntu 10.04.1.
I try to figure out a clean solution, but apparently this is inherent to upstart 
and explains why some package, such as apache, did not go on the upstart train 
already.


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