Re: Boot hangs starting postfix

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> I'm seeing a similar lockup here with postfix-2.1.1, and kernel/world
> built yesterday with fresh source. However, it's not a usual lockup;
> when I'm not running X, I can switch between console, but nothing is
> echoed back on the screen, except for ctrl-alt-esc. Does this look like
> the hang you've been seeing?
>
> The ps command in DDB showed that smtp process is stuck in `lockf' state.
> I didn't have time to write down the backtrace, but I can do it on request.
>
> The postfix in question is built on 13 May, and it used to work fine
> until I upgraded the kernel on 30 May. I'm going to rebuild it to see if
> it's reproducible, after backing up the old binary.

Are you installing postfix from the fbsd-ports tree or download and 
compile version ? Also do you have anything odd in your config ? I'll 
setup a box with postfix and see if I notice any problems.

-DR