[SOLVED] Postfix will not start in Release 7.1.0_GA_3140.RHEL5_64

[jwatson]

Fresh install. Everything starts except the mta/postfix.

Please advise

Thanks in advance


[zimbra@atl-storemail01 ~]$ postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.7.2.2z/conf/main.cf
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.7.2.2z/conf/master.cf
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.7.2.2z/conf/master.cf.in
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by postfix: /opt/zimbra/data/postfix/data/./master.lock
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system


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

[lytledd]

What's your /var/log/zimbra.log show when you tried to start up zimbra?

Doug

[asemenov]

I have the same problem from time2time.

The backup script does a stop, LVM snapshot create, start and back-up using just created snapshot:

Fri May 27 04:00:01 MSD 2011 Stopping zimbra...
Host mx40
        Stopping stats...Done.
        Stopping mta...Done.
        Stopping spell...Done.
        Stopping snmp...Done.
        Stopping cbpolicyd...Done.
        Stopping archiving...Done.
        Stopping antivirus...Done.
        Stopping antispam...Done.
        Stopping imapproxy...Done.
        Stopping memcached...Done.
        Stopping mailbox...Done.
        Stopping logger...Done.
        Stopping zmconfigd...Done.
        Stopping ldap...Done.
Fri May 27 04:00:34 MSD 2011 Creating snapshot
  Logical volume "zmsnapshot" created
Fri May 27 04:00:36 MSD 2011 Starting zimbra...
Host mx40
        Starting ldap...Done.
        Starting zmconfigd...Done.
        Starting logger...Done.
        Starting mailbox...Done.
        Starting memcached...Done.
        Starting imapproxy...Done.
        Starting antispam...Done.
        Starting antivirus...Done.
        Starting snmp...Done.
        Starting spell...Done.
        Starting mta...Done.
        Starting stats...Done.
Fri May 27 04:01:42 MSD 2011 Mounting and backing up...

And that's what zimbra.log is stating about the 'service zimbra start' command:

May 27 04:01:40 mx40 zimbramon[24634]: 24634:info: Starting snmp via zmcontrol
May 27 04:01:40 mx40 zimbramon[24634]: 24634:info: Starting spell via zmcontrol
May 27 04:01:40 mx40 zimbramon[24634]: 24634:info: Starting mta via zmcontrol
May 27 04:01:41 mx40 sudo:   zimbra : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/data/zimbra ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmmtastatus
May 27 04:01:41 mx40 saslauthd[26046]: detach_tty      : master pid is: 26046
May 27 04:01:41 mx40 saslauthd[26046]: ipc_init        : listening on socket: /opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23.3z/state/mux
May 27 04:01:41 mx40 zimbramon[24634]: 24634:info: Starting stats via zmcontrol
May 27 04:01:44 mx40 sudo:   zimbra : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/data/zimbra ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmstat-fd
May 27 04:01:59 mx40 clamd[25957]: Reading databases from /opt/zimbra/data/clamav/db
May 27 00:02:00 mx40 postfix/postqueue[26719]: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down
May 27 04:02:04 mx40 clamd[25957]: Database correctly reloaded (846254 signatures)
May 27 04:02:07 mx40 sudo:   zimbra : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/data/zimbra ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmmailboxdmgr status
May 27 04:02:07 mx40 zmmailboxdmgr[27075]: status requested
May 27 04:02:07 mx40 zmmailboxdmgr[27075]: status OK
May 27 04:02:07 mx40 sudo:   zimbra : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/data/zimbra ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmmtastatus
May 27 00:02:30 mx40 postfix/postqueue[27239]: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down
May 27 00:03:00 mx40 postfix/postqueue[27274]: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down

[husam]

i had the same problem, i tryed a lot stuff, then i had to reinstall the zimbra and its fixed.

[ssatam]

Check the ownership of the master.lock and /opt/zimbra/data/postfix directory.

[asemenov]

Originally Posted by ssatam

Check the ownership of the master.lock and /opt/zimbra/data/postfix directory.

Is this an answer to my case too?

[jwatson]

I discovered that sendmail was still running and sitting on the port that postfix watned.

Stopped sendmail and restarted Zimbra.

Solved.

Thanks guys!!!