[SOLVED] Problem with mta (postfix) - simply refuse to start

[boiko]

Hi guys,

After we have a problem with full disk, and we clean it.
We can not send or receive mails any more.
I check and I sow this :

antispam Running
antivirus Running
ldap Running
logger Running
mailbox Running
mta Stopped
postfix is not running
zmsaslauthdctl is not running
snmp Running
spell Running
stats Stopped

I have start zmsaslauthdctl manually but postfix is still not working.
I am getting load average around 10 from postalias.

Any ideas?

[boiko]

if I try

]$ sh -x bin/zmmtactl status
+ BASE=/opt/zimbra
+ SCRIPTS='zmmtaconfigctl postfix zmsaslauthdctl'
+ case "$1" in
+ STATUS=0
+ for i in '$SCRIPTS'
+ /opt/zimbra/bin/zmmtaconfigctl status
+ R=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ for i in '$SCRIPTS'
+ /opt/zimbra/bin/postfix status
+ R=1
+ '[' 1 -ne 0 ']'
+ echo 'postfix is not running'
postfix is not running
+ STATUS=1
+ for i in '$SCRIPTS'
+ /opt/zimbra/bin/zmsaslauthdctl status
+ R=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ exit 1

Apparently I can not make postfix works. I think there is something is wrong with postalias

If anyone have an idea will be much of a help.

[veronica]

Whats in zimbra.log ? What error message when you restart postfix ?

[boiko]

Nothing unusual or at least I can not detect anything.

Concerning mta :

Jul 30 08:12:37 srv-webmail-m-01 zimbramon[3237]: 3237:info: zmmtaconfig: zmmtaconfig started on srv-webmail-m-01.azerti.be with loglevel=3 pid=3237
Jul 30 08:14:09 srv-webmail-m-01 zimbramon[4304]: 4304:info: 2009-07-30 08:14:01, STATUS: srv-webmail-m-01.azerti.be: mta: Stopped
Jul 30 08:14:23 srv-webmail-m-01 zimbramon[2378]: 2378:info: Starting mta via zmcontrol
Jul 30 08:16:09 srv-webmail-m-01 zimbramon[5649]: 5649:info: 2009-07-30 08:16:01, STATUS: srv-webmail-m-01.azerti.be: mta: Stopped
Jul 30 08:18:15 srv-webmail-m-01 zimbramon[6946]: 6946:info: 2009-07-30 08:18:01, STATUS: srv-webmail-m-01.azerti.be: mta: Stopped
Jul 30 08:20:17 srv-webmail-m-01 zimbramon[8137]: 8137:info: 2009-07-30 08:20:02, STATUS: srv-webmail-m-01.azerti.be: mta: Stopped
Jul 30 08:22:08 srv-webmail-m-01 zimbramon[8934]: 8934:info: 2009-07-30 08:22:01, STATUS: srv-webmail-m-01.azerti.be: mta: Stopped

Concerning postfix:

Jul 30 06:20:02 srv-webmail-m-01 postfix/postqueue[8165]: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down

and normally I have to start zmstatctl manually

[uxbod]

So what did you clean up ? Shutdown ZCS and make sure no processes owned by zimbra are still running; and if so kill them off nicely. Once that is done try starting ZCS again.

[boiko]

Ok I did that:

[root@srv-webmail-m-01 ~]# ps aux | grep zimbra
root 22382 0.0 0.0 3908 664 pts/1 S+ 09:32 0:00 grep zimbra
[root@srv-webmail-m-01 ~]#

and immediate result was

Message from syslogd@ at Thu Jul 30 09:14:28 2009 ...
srv-webmail-m-01 kernel: journal commit I/O error

After the hard restart to the server zimbra start is taking forever.

[uxbod]

journal commit I/O error

Looks like you have some filesystem corruption so you may wish to FSCK the disk and ensure everything is okay. What do you get if you run dmesg ? and have you checked /var/log/messages ?

[boiko]

Nothing unusual in dmesg or in /var/log/messages. Yes I had some problems with the file system but now it's Ok and I repaired all mysql tables according to
Logger - Zimbra :: Wiki

But no matter what I do it still hangs on this

/opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/postalias /etc/aliases

and I am getting really big load on the server from this process.

Can I reinstall just the postfix inside zimbra

[uxbod]

Have you checked /etc/aliases to ensure that it is not corrupt ?

[boiko]

seems to be Ok

[root@srv-webmail-m-01 ~]# ll /etc/aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1512 Apr 25 2005 /etc/aliases

and the file itself:

[root@srv-webmail-m-01 ~]# cat /etc/aliases
#
# Aliases in this file will NOT be expanded in the header from
# Mail, but WILL be visible over networks or from /bin/mail.
#
# >>>>>>>>>> The program "newaliases" must be run after
# >> NOTE >> this file is updated for any changes to
# >>>>>>>>>> show through to sendmail.
#

# Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present.
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root

# General redirections for pseudo accounts.
bin: root
daemon: root
adm: root
lp: root
sync: root
shutdown: root
halt: root
mail: root
news: root
uucp: root
operator: root
games: root
gopher: root
ftp: root
nobody: root
radiusd: root
nut: root
dbus: root
vcsa: root
canna: root
wnn: root
rpm: root
nscd: root
pcap: root
apache: root
webalizer: root
dovecot: root
fax: root
quagga: root
radvd: root
pvm: root
amanda: root
privoxy: root
ident: root
named: root
xfs: root
gdm: root
mailnull: root
postgres: root
sshd: root
smmsp: root
postfix: root
netdump: root
ldap: root
squid: root
ntp: root
mysql: root
desktop: root
rpcuser: root
rpc: root
nfsnobody: root

ingres: root
system: root
toor: root
manager: root
dumper: root
abuse: root

newsadm: news
newsadmin: news
usenet: news
ftpadm: ftp
ftpadmin: ftp
ftp-adm: ftp
ftp-admin: ftp
www: webmaster
webmaster: root
noc: root
security: root
hostmaster: root
info: postmaster
marketing: postmaster
sales: postmaster
support: postmaster


# trap decode to catch security attacks
decode: root

# Person who should get root's mail
#root: marc