postfix panics on bad file descriptor

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potuz · Post by **potuz** » Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:24 pm

Since an update today I get the following on my system logs

Jan 13 17:20:16 whiskey postfix/postfix-script[2583]: starting the Postfix mail system
Jan 13 17:20:16 whiskey postfix/master[2587]: daemon started -- version 3.3.1, configuration /etc/postfix
Jan 13 17:20:16 whiskey postfix/master[2587]: panic: event_loop: bad file descriptor: 1937007477

The postfix server crashes and I am without an e-mail server. I have not changed the config files. I only found one similar post in the German subsection of this forum in 2008 with no answer.

potuz · Post by **potuz** » Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:46 pm

Recompiled postifx, couldn't this time with distcc, had to add FEATURES="-distcc-pump" and now postfix is working. I think something was broken with libpostfix-util.so with a bad reference to fcntl64 (that's why the bad file descriptor error). But I won't go looking for what was broken. It seems to be working now.