SOLVED - Re: [gentoo-user] Courier-imap won't start after system & world rebuild

[John J. Foster]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:22:23PM -0500, John J. Foster wrote:
> Good evening all,
>
> 3 days ago I rebuilt my system to use gcc-3.4.4-r1. I first used
> gcc-config to change to the new compiler, and then ran emerge -aev system,
> followed by emerge -aev world. All went extremely well, I thought. Today
> I noticed that courier-imap has failed to start. (The only reason I knew
> was because my wife uses this box to store her sent mail for backup
> purposes, and wwas getting connection errors) Trying to start it manually
> yields:
>
> //garbanzo/root #  /etc/init.d/courier-imapd-ssl start
>  * Starting courier-imapd over SSL ...                      * [ !! ]
>
> No log entries are generated that I can find. I compared config files in
> /etc/courier and /etc/courier-imap with archived copies. They're the
> same.
>
> The following packages have been emerged since upgrading.
>
>      Wed Dec 21 18:33:07 2005 >>> dev-util/xdelta-1.1.3
>      Wed Dec 21 21:18:44 2005 >>> sys-process/lsof-4.75
>      Thu Dec 22 14:02:01 2005 >>> app-admin/showconsole-1.07
>      Thu Dec 22 14:05:38 2005 >>> sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre12
>      Fri Dec 23 09:03:30 2005 >>> sys-apps/findutils-4.1.20-r2
>      Fri Dec 23 09:21:37 2005 >>> net-mail/courier-imap-4.0.1
>
> I'm not sure whether courier-imap started after the upgrade, or one of
> these have caused my problems.

Turns out it was the update of baselayout to ~x86. I went back to the 
stable version (boy, I don't think I'd do that again, cause
downgrading sure screwed a bunch of other things up) and sure enough,
courier-imap worked properly. Instead of fixing the other things that
broke with the downgrade, I just updated baselayout to ~x86 again, and
then emerged the latest ~x86 version of courier-imap, and all is still
well.

Thanks for you help,
John