dovecot error on boot up

User Hasse hasse at bara1.se
Wed Apr 11 17:39:22 UTC 2018


On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 04:59:16PM +0000, Carmel NY wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:22:02 +0100, Matt Smith stated:
> 
> >On Apr 11 15:38, User Hasse wrote:
> >>Hello
> >>After latest update/upgrade I get this for me strange error on the
> >>boot up screen :
> >>
> >>dovecot error:t_readlink(var/run/dovecot//dovecot.conf) failed: readlink()
> >>failed: No such file or directory Then : Starting dovecot
> >>
> >>Dovecot seems to work as usual and I can't find anything in any logfiles.
> >>
> >>Googled it, and found this :
> >>https://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg73108.html
> >>
> >>Anybody else experienced this ? Or know how to fix ?
> >>
> >>Best Regards
> >>Geir Svalland  
> >
> >Nobody ever reads /usr/ports/UPDATING do they? :)
> >
> >Though I did exactly this and started from a completely fresh configuration
> >and I saw the error you've mentioned too. But I only saw it the very first
> >time I started dovecot. It has never been seen on the second restart or since.
> >
> >20180401:
> >  AFFECTS: users of mail/dovecot and mail/dovecot-pigeonhole
> >  AUTHOR: adamw at FreeBSD.org
> >
> >  Dovecot has been upgraded to 2.3.1, and pigeonhole to 0.5.1. Most
> >  existing dovecot installations MUST be modified for 2.3, but for
> >  most users the modifications are simple.
> >
> >  Modify your Dovecot conf.d/ files before spinning up 2.3.1. The
> >  upgrading instructions are detailed here:
> >
> >        https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.3
> 
> I have read it and made all of the changes before I started Dovecot the first
> time. The only only happens if I reboot the system, not if I shutdown and then
> restart Dovecot.
> 
> I see nothing in the "updating" file that would account for this.
> 
> -- 
> Carmel
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Same here.
Found no clues in the wiki either
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