Re: Amavisd silently dies at startup

Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:26:02 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.virus.amavis.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 22.02.26 17:20, Xavier Humbert wrote:
>I'm running FreeBSD 14, I recently upgraded Perl from 5.40 to 5.42 and 
>all its dependencies as recommended in /usr/ports/UPDATING

Have you rebuilt all perl modules and amavis as well?

>Since then amavisd silently dies when I start it. In my config, I added
>$log_level = 5;
>$sa_debug = 1;
>
>I issued the command "service amavisd start" It launches, the dies 
>without any error message. Here is the relevant part of maillog

>All I can see when amavisd is activated in Postfix is :
>
>Feb 22 16:38:57 numenor postfix/smtpd[92467]: 6DBE91C196A: 
>client=arnor.groumpf.org[192.168.100.148]
>Feb 22 16:38:57 numenor postfix/lmtp[92473]: connect to 
>127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024: Connection refused
>Feb 22 16:38:57 numenor postfix/lmtp[92473]: 298C11C1A2B: 
>to=<[email protected]>, relay=none, delay=0.32, delays=0.3/0.02/0/0, 
>dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024: 
>Connection refused)
>
>If I run the command service amavisd status, it says that amavisd is 
>not running.

Last time similar thing happened to me, one of amavis' config files in 
/etc/amavisd/ was not readable for amavis user.

But this is apparently not your case.

SIGBUS indicates the need to rebuild everything that uses perl.

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