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Bug 451627

Summary: spamd processes blocked, "prefork: select returned -1! recovering: Bad file descriptor"
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: David Tonhofer <bughunt>
Component: spamassassinAssignee: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 4.8CC: radu
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Lines of "spamd" left in the mail syloglog (extract) none

Description David Tonhofer 2008-06-16 09:55:48 UTC 
Description of problem:

Sometimes spamd gets into a state where it seems to be unable to process mails
and from which it cannot get out.

The log shows long runs of 

"prefork: select returned -1! recovering: Bad file descriptor"

followed by what I understand to be attempts by spamd to start subprocesses.
This goes on until restart. Attached an extract of the mail log.

This does not happen really often, once every two months or so. But the system
only has about 20 users. A restart helps. 

Unfortunately, not much more info for now.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

spamassassin-3.1.9-1.el4.1

How reproducible:

Difficult
Comment 1 David Tonhofer 2008-06-16 09:58:05 UTC 
Created attachment 309476 [details]
Lines of "spamd" left in the mail syloglog (extract)
Comment 2 Radu Greab 2008-07-25 23:51:22 UTC 
Added a reference to the upstream bug #5313.
Comment 3 Warren Togami 2008-07-26 05:29:36 UTC 
It looks like this was fixed in spamassassin-3.2.0.  RHEL4 has
spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el4.1 yet you still have this problem?
Comment 4 Radu Greab 2008-07-26 11:40:19 UTC 
I personally use spamassassin on CentOS systems and CentOS has
spamassassin-3.1.9-1.el4. I was not aware until now of this version mismatch.

I don't know if the reporter is running CentOS too or he is using an older RHEL4
release. If he uses RHEL4, the issue, as you said, should be already fixed if he
upgrades.
Comment 5 David Tonhofer 2008-07-26 22:44:22 UTC 
Original reporter here. As indicated, this is a RHEL4 with a 3.1.9-1.el4.1. 

Version 3.2.4 is indeed out, so it's time to upgrade.
Comment 6 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 16:04:23 UTC 
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