Mailscanner stopped delivering to outgoing queue

[Mordur Ingolfsson]

I have mailscanner + exim4 running on a Debian testing box.  It just
stopped working, and the processes children are zombies. Nothing gets
delivered to the outgoing queue.

ps aux  | grep MailScanner



102       5335  0.0  0.8  21992 18224 ?        SNs  22:36   0:00
MailScanner: starting child
102       5452  4.4  0.0      0     0 ?        ZN   22:39   0:02
[MailScanner] <defunct>
102       5457  5.4  0.0      0     0 ?        ZN   22:39   0:02
[MailScanner] <defunct>
102       5462  6.9  0.0      0     0 ?        ZN   22:39   0:02
[MailScanner] <defunct>
102       5467  9.7  0.0      0     0 ?        ZN   22:40   0:02
[MailScanner] <defunct>
102       5472 15.9  0.0      0     0 ?        ZN   22:40   0:02
[MailScanner] <defunct>
102       5479 45.3  0.0      0     0 ?        ZN   22:40   0:02
[MailScanner] <defunct>


This is the output from /var/log/syslog:

Jun 30 22:49:45 mx0 root: MailScanner setting GID to Debian-exim (102)
Jun 30 22:49:45 mx0 root: MailScanner setting UID to Debian-exim (102)
Jun 30 22:49:45 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.51.5 starting...
Jun 30 22:49:45 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: Read 714 hostnames from the
phishing whitelist
Jun 30 22:49:45 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: Using SpamAssassin results cache
Jun 30 22:49:45 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: Connected to SpamAssassin cache
database
Jun 30 22:49:45 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: Enabling SpamAssassin
auto-whitelist functionality...
Jun 30 22:49:47 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: ClamAV scanner using unrar
command /usr/bin/unrar-free
Jun 30 22:49:47 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: lock.pl sees Config  LockType = 
posix
Jun 30 22:49:47 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: lock.pl sees have_module =  0
Jun 30 22:49:47 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: Using locktype = posix
Jun 30 22:49:47 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: Creating hardcoded struct_flock
subroutine for linux (Linux-type)
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: New Batch: Found 77 messages waiting
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: New Batch: Scanning 30 messages,
8701546 bytes
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: Created attachment dirs for 30
messages
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwJzo-0007RV-IH
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwJz1-0007R4-DD
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwLVB-0001U5-UY
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwLK9-0001O5-Le
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwJkH-0007K4-Qh
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwIZX-0006ii-OK
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwLQD-0001Rg-SJ
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwIu2-0006t6-Jy
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwLd6-0001Yx-0d
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwLPB-0001Qv-Ln
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwIUe-0006gB-T4
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwKeA-00013K-A6
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwKCC-0007Xm-5A
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwKwz-0001Cm-On
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwLDn-0001L6-OE
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwIXH-0006hY-OV
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwLaE-0001XV-PY
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwJ2R-0006y8-P1
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwJZ3-0007EJ-FR
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwJ99-00071C-5T
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwJAo-000727-2I
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwIX9-0006hT-SX
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwLar-0001Xp-DM
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwJ93-00071D-9f
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwLV3-0001U4-OO
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwIX9-0006hS-NQ
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwIVI-0006gW-4J
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwJhl-0007Ir-JY
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwJP8-00079K-EP
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
message 1FwJYH-0007Du-PC
Jun 30 22:49:48 mx0 MailScanner[5845]: Spam Checks: Found 8 spam messages




And then nothing

What is going on?

Best

Mordur