setrlimit: Unable to set file descriptors limit to -1: Operation not permitted

[Luca Olivetti]

ML mail wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying out Cyrus 2.2.8 on Slackware Linux with a
> 2.4.21 kernel and Cyrus SASL 2.1.19, DB 4.2.52 and
> OpenLDAP 2.2.17.
> 
> The problem that I have is when I want to start the
> master I get the following problem:
> 
> Oct 18 11:32:16 srv master[30609]: setrlimit: Unable
> to set file descriptors limit to -1: Operation not
> permitted
> Oct 18 11:32:16 srv master[30609]: retrying with 1024
> (current max)
> Oct 18 11:32:16 srv master[30609]: process started
> Oct 18 11:32:16 srv master[30610]: about to exec
> /opt/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb
> Oct 18 11:32:16 srv ctl_cyrusdb[30610]: recovering
> cyrus databases
> Oct 18 11:32:16 srv ctl_cyrusdb[30610]: skiplist:
> recovered /var/cyrus/mailboxes.db (0 records, 144
> bytes) in 0 seconds
> Oct 18 11:32:16 srv ctl_cyrusdb[30610]: skiplist:
> recovered /var/cyrus/annotations.db (0 records, 144
> bytes) in 0 seconds
> Oct 18 11:32:16 srv ctl_cyrusdb[30610]: done
> recovering cyrus databases
> Oct 18 11:32:16 srv master[30611]: about to exec
> /opt/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist
> Oct 18 11:32:16 srv master[30609]: process 30611
> exited, signaled to death by 11 
> 
> And the master quits with "Segmentation fault". Does
> anyone know what's this setrlimit problem ?

That's not actually a problem (under linux it's not possible to use -1 
and so it retries with the maximum value) and it's not the cause of the 
"signaled to death by 11". Among other causes it's possible that cyrus 
is using one version of berkeley db while openldap is using another.

Bye
-- 
Luca Olivetti
Wetron Automatización S.A. http://www.wetron.es/
Tel. +34 93 5883004      Fax +34 93 5883007
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