Well, it's running now, but I'm not sure why the problem was the
problem. Doing an strace showed the last open() was to
/lib/libnss_db.so.2. I'm not sure why db was in nsswitch, I
would guess it was default from the install. Anyway, I took it
out and it worked.

The remaining question is why that would not have affected the
previous installation. But oh well.

Postfix was built on the same machine, using gcc:

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-slackware-linux/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)

The distribution is Slackware (Splack now) from a year ago
with some upgrades, mostly network related.

Anyway, thanks for your help!

Aaron

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> Hi,
> Aaron Dewell wrote,
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm posting from my school account because postfix blew up on my
> > usual mail server...
> >
> > The problem is that I upgraded to the 1.1.11-20020918 version, compiled
> > fine, installed, then nothing happens on startup. It claims it starts:
> >
> > # postfix start
> > postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
> >
> > However:
> >
> > > netstat -an | grep 25
> > > ps auxw | grep master
> > acd 9836 0.0 0.1 1520 568 pts/0 S 18:17 0:00 grep -i master
> >
> > BTW:
> >
> > > uname -a
> > Linux spruce 2.4.19 #1 SMP Mon Sep 16 18:27:44 MDT 2002 sparc unknown
> >
> > Other observations are no log entries (except the starting message), and
> > running master directly produces "Illegal Instruction" - but I'm not sure
> > if that's normal for running it directly or not. I assume not, and then
> > that would be why it's failing to start.
> >
> > # /usr/libexec/postfix/master
> > Illegal instruction
>
> Have you build postfix on the same system?
>
> Try to strace the process.
> >
> > master.cf is the default file, main.cf is of course customized, but I've
> > tried starting from scratch, commenting out stuff, no change. Starting
> > with no main.cf, master just exit(1)'s. With a blank main.cf, SIGILL.
> >
> > Any ideas? I want to get it going within another day before my mail
> > stops queuing up one way or another. No, no secondary mx, it's
> > primarily just my email, so not exactly critical. Of course, I failed to
> > take backups of the old binaries. I did try to recompile the old version
> > (20011105), but no change, or perhaps I just didn't try hard enough.
> >
> > Also tried the original release 1.1.11 (instead of 20020918), no change
> > again.
> >
> > I've also reverted to the old kernel (2.4.19-pre4), as I upgraded that as
> > well 2 days ago, but no change using the old one. Other things that
> > changed recently was an upgrade to BIND (9.2.2rc1 from 9.1.2rc6 or something),
> > but not to the libresolv.so that postfix depends on, so that shouldn't affect
> > it. Also changed Apache/PHP, but that'd be really stretching it.
> >
> > Please, any ideas are helpful. Thank you!
>
> Which version of gcc you use? Which distribution?
>
> bye
> Waldemar

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