Help: waiting for children to die: Process did not exit cleanly

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Tue Jan 23 10:24:40 CET 2007


Chris

Yes..

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:test_troubleshoot
:mailscanner&s=debug



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Kimpton, C (Chris)
> Sent: 23 January 2007 09:17
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Help: waiting for children to die: Process did not exit
cleanly
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running MailScanner on gentoo (using the sunrise overlay) -
version
> 4.57.6 .
>
> It was working ok a few versions back, but I now get this error in the
> logs:
>
>   MailScanner: waiting for children to die: Process did not exit
cleanly,
> returned 25 (and 9) with signal 0
>
> Like this:
>
> Jan 23 09:09:35 nog MailScanner[8045]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner
> version 4.57.6 starting...
> Jan 23 09:09:36 nog MailScanner[8045]: Read 759 hostnames from the
> phishing whitelist
> Jan 23 09:09:36 nog MailScanner[8045]: Using locktype = posix
> Jan 23 09:09:36 nog MailScanner[8045]: Creating hardcoded struct_flock
> subroutine for linux (Linux-type)
> Jan 23 09:09:36 nog MailScanner[8045]: New Batch: Found 119 messages
> waiting
> Jan 23 09:09:36 nog MailScanner[8045]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages,
> 242846 bytes
> Jan 23 09:09:36 nog MailScanner[8045]: Spam Checks: Starting
> Jan 23 09:09:40 nog MailScanner: waiting for children to die: Process
did
> not exit cleanly, returned 9 with signal 0
> Jan 23 09:09:40 nog MailScanner[8053]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner
> version 4.57.6 starting...
> Jan 23 09:09:41 nog MailScanner[8053]: Read 759 hostnames from the
> phishing whitelist
> Jan 23 09:09:41 nog MailScanner[8053]: Using locktype = posix
> Jan 23 09:09:41 nog MailScanner[8053]: Creating hardcoded struct_flock
> subroutine for linux (Linux-type)
> Jan 23 09:09:41 nog MailScanner[8053]: New Batch: Found 119 messages
> waiting
> Jan 23 09:09:41 nog MailScanner[8053]: New Batch: Scanning 29
messages,
> 194591 bytes
> Jan 23 09:09:41 nog MailScanner[8053]: Spam Checks: Starting
> Jan 23 09:09:45 nog MailScanner: waiting for children to die: Process
did
> not exit cleanly, returned 25 with signal 0
> Jan 23 09:09:45 nog MailScanner[8056]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner
> version 4.57.6 starting...
> Jan 23 09:09:46 nog MailScanner[8056]: Read 759 hostnames from the
> phishing whitelist
> Jan 23 09:09:46 nog MailScanner[8056]: Using locktype = posix
> Jan 23 09:09:46 nog MailScanner[8056]: Creating hardcoded struct_flock
> subroutine for linux (Linux-type)
> Jan 23 09:10:56 nog MailScanner[31093]: Disabled RBL SBL+XBL as
reached
> 7/10 timeouts
>
> Is there any extra debug I can turn on - or another log file to look
at?
>
> Or an install integrity check?  Perhaps one of the upgrades did not go
> smoothly and its in an inconsistent state...
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
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