Source-upgrading FreeBSD "breaks" postfix+dovecot?

[Xin LI]

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Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> Tonight I source-upgraded a FreeBSD system from i386 6.3p5 to i386
> 6.4-R.  I have postfix 2.5.5 and dovecot 1.1.7 installed with postfix
> using dovecot for SASL and dovecot LDA for mailbox delivery.  After
> installing 6.4-R, postfix refused to work until I recompiled and
> reinstalled both it and dovecot.  Dovecot itself (i.e., the IMAP server)
> worked fine.  Postfix worked fine if I set smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=no and
> defer_transports=dovecot, effectively preventing postfix from using any
> dovecot bits.  Examples of the logged errors:
> 
> Before reinstalling anything:
> 
> postfix/pipe[36617]: fatal: get_service_attr: unknown group: vmail

Sounds like that you have did something really bad during mergemaster?
(i.e. installed /etc/group without actually doing merge) and in turn the
group gets removed...

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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