Bug#307961: exim4: Loops forever on bootup; restart works ok

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:16:01PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>   On at least several computers here, exim goes into an infinite loop when the
> computer is booted.  Its main log file starts like this:
> 
> 2005-05-06 16:59:10 exim 4.50 daemon started: pid=3999, -q30m, listening for SMTP on [127.0.0.1]:25
> 2005-05-06 16:59:10 50 select() failures: Bad file descriptor
> 2005-05-06 16:59:10 50 select() failures: Bad file descriptor
> 2005-05-06 16:59:10 50 select() failures: Bad file descriptor
> 2005-05-06 16:59:10 50 select() failures: Bad file descriptor
> 2005-05-06 16:59:10 50 select() failures: Bad file descriptor
> ...

If libnss-ldap is in use, this is bug #299051, which is fixed in
4.50-5 and later. Thanks for re-opening that issue - it will help
getting 4.50-6 into sarge.

If libnss-ldap is not in use, please report back for some more
in-depth debugging.

Greetings
Marc

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