Bug#205566: Please add dovecot to the list of services restarted on an upgrade
At Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:44:03 -0400 (EDT),
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org> wrote:
> A user sent me the following report:
>
> > Updated this morning (apt-get upgrade), on unstable (i386). Since I
> > pass -u, I could tell that I didn't want to be in X while doing this, so
> > bailed to tty, stopped gdm, ran the upgrade (upgrade of libc6). Since
> > it upgraded libc, it told me it wanted to restart services; fine, I was
> > in a hurry, didn't pay attention.
> >
> > On restarting X, and opening my mail client, I found that I couldn't
> > access the local imap server. imap-auth died. Stirrings of panic.
> > Test with mutt. No login. I didn't remember a dovecot upgrade. Check
> > two other machines running it ... no, they're okay ... but they're
> > older. Full-scale panic proposed as the proper response, narrowly
> > defeated in debates on the floor.
> >
> > To cut to the chase, it turns out that dovecot wasn't tagged as a
> > service needing a restart when libc was installed. And presumably,
> > whatever is there listening on the port (imap-login?) was having
> > problems whenever it tried to get an imap-auth. /etc/init.d/dovecot
> > stop followed by start, everything's fine. But shouldn't dovecot get
> > tagged as a service needing restart, when the libc updates require it?
>
> Can /etc/init.d/dovecot be added to the list of services restarted by
> libc6?
OK, I've added it, it's fixed in 2.3.2-3.
Regards,
-- gotom
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