Re: Amavisd silently dies at startup

Le 25/02/2026 13:40, Patrick Proniewski via amavis-users a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On 24 Feb 2026, at 15:25, Xavier Humbert <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Did you reinstall everything depending on Perl (pkg query %ro perl5), including huge ports like llvm (!!), or just like I did, dependencies on libperl.so.42
>
> I’ve removed Perl, so everything depending on Perl got deleted. Then I’ve reinstalled what I need (Amavisd-new, Sympa, opendkim, etc.) that was removed because it depends on Perl.
>
> I’m using pkg with «latest», I stopped using ports about a decade ago, apart from very specific exceptions.
>
> $ cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
> FreeBSD: {
>    url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
>    mirror_type: "srv",
>    enabled: yes
> }
>
>
> Patrick

Hi,

I finally downgraded Perl from 5.42 to 5.40, then rebuild dependencies

portupgrade -vf $(pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.42)

Then amavisd starts up again normally.

# su - vscan
$ amavisd   -c /usr/local/etc/amavisd.conf debug
All is OK

Still remains a mystery

Xavier

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