Bad problems with 2.3.10 on FreeBSD

[Per olof Ljungmark]

Rich Wales wrote:
> I recently upgraded my system to 2.3.10.  My main Cyrus server runs
> FreeBSD 6.2, replicating to a second server running Ubuntu 7.10.  I
> had decided to upgrade now from 2.3.9 to 2.3.10 because of replication
> "bailing out" errors in 2.3.9 that are reportedly fixed in 2.3.10.
> 
> At first, I was having lots of seg-fault errors, but I added the
> getgrouplist() patch to auth_unix.c on my FreeBSD system, and that
> seemed to take care of the core-dumps.
> 
> However, I started seeing other problems on the FreeBSD box -- such
> as "ctl_cyrusdb -c" checkpoint jobs hanging, and other mail delivery
> attempts hanging (or timing out) and piling up in my Postfix queue.
> I had to restart Cyrus frequently on the FreeBSD system in order to
> clear the logjams.
> 
> I finally gave up and went back to 2.3.9 on both servers.  Given the
> instability of 2.3.10 on my main server, I felt I had no choice.
> 
> Any ideas what might have been happening?  If I can't figure out how
> to get 2.3.10 running stably, I assume I'm going to either have to
> stick with 2.3.9 (and figure out some other way around the replication
> bailout errors until 2.3.11 comes out), or else move my main Cyrus
> operations onto some other platform (maybe another Ubuntu box).
> 

Did you check anything with the FBSD port maintainer? There may be 
patches available that cannot be commited due to the freeze.

--per