From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 17:19:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0429D1065674 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:19:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dscheidt@panix.com) Received: from www.thixotropy.net (vc183.vc.panix.com [IPv6:2001:470:30:80:e276:63ff:fe62:3833]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C032E8FC16 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.21.172.10] (unknown [66.227.18.86]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by www.thixotropy.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 220D91257B8 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:19:22 -0500 (EST) References: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: David Scheidt Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:19:21 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Subject: Re: Continuing problems with Dovecot + MySQL 5.5.8_1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:19:23 -0000 On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Jerry wrote: > FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE >=20 > After updating to the latest version of MySQL (5.5.8_1), I am > continuing to have problems with Dovecot failing to run correctly even > though I completely removed and reinstalled it. I might add that I did > a pkg_delete of the MySQL client and server also before updating the > port. I was led to believe that this updated version corrected the > problem; however, that does not appear to be correct. :-( >=20 > Strangely enough, Postfix, after rebuilding it, works fine with the > new version of MySQL. :-) >=20 > What I need to do is get a gdb backtrace of dovecot. Since the program > starts from the dovecot script in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory, I > am unsure of how to accomplish this. I have tried several methods; > however, they all fail. Exactly how would I start dovecot using the > script via gdb to get a backtrace? >=20 start it from the command line? There are some knobs in the conf file = to help with debugging, too. =20=