imapd crashes with THREAD command in 2.1.16

[Ken Murchison]

Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I hope it's OK to put this back on the list ...

Sure, my bad for not including the list (posted too early).

> --On Montag, 10. Mai 2004 8:15 Uhr -0400 Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>>> May 10 09:50:29 lvr1 master[6068]: process 22542 exited, signaled to
>>> death by 7
>>
>>
>> Do you have a backtrace of the dump?
> 
> 
> Unfortunately no. I can't attach to the process, because it dies too 
> quickly, and the RH Linux daemontools keep processes from dumping core - 
> supposedly for security reasons. I've been meaning to set up an 
> alternate debugging service (i.e. a cyrus.conf entry that calls "gdb 
> imapd") but haven't yet.

I get around this my having my Cyrus startup script so a 'ulimit -c 
unlimited' so that I get my cores.

> 
>>> This problem usually goes away when I get new mail, but it's something
>>> I'd like to see fixed anyway. Is this fixed in more recent releases?
>>
>>
>> The only recent THREAD related fix that I recall is this:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/cyrus/imap/index.c
>> .diff?r1=1.203&r2=1.204&f=u
> 
> 
> Thanks, Sebastian Hagedorn
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