On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 21:32 +0000, Robert Spangler wrote:
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> I have noticed that Postfix is no longer running so I decided to restart it
> and I receive the following error:
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> Starting postfix: ./postfix: line 34: 30371 Segmentation
> fault /usr/sbin/postalias ${alias_database//,} 2>/dev/null
> [FAILED]
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> So I tried to uninstall and then reinstall. Yum doesn't find a package and
> apt-get installs postfix-2.1.5-2.4.FC3
That's the post-release errata version, you'll want to install that
package rather than the original ISO version.
> So I uninstalled this version and installed the version from the DVD ISO.
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> I receive the following error message:
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> Starting postfix: /etc/init.d/postfix: line 34: 31945 Segmentation
> fault /usr/sbin/postalias "$alias_database" 2>/dev/null
> [FAILED]
>
> Could someone please point me in the right direction to fix this?
>
It sounds like a possible hardware issue (being a SIGSEGV / signal 11 -
memory issues? I'm assuming the FC build is clean :-D) so the following
document and a copy of gdb / strace is your friend.
http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html
> Fedora Core 3
Same version here ( but running a postfix snapshot with similar problems
of my own making...)
> Thnx
Cheers,
Michael.
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