Panic: pop3-login: file client-common.c: line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0)

[Markus Majer]

After I updated my 9.04 Ubuntu Server (32 bit) I got followin message in my mail.err:

"Panic: pop3-login: file client-common.c: line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0)"

Now I cannot log into my server via POP3, and also my clients can not.

How can you release a mail server version in Ubuntu with such a server bug?!

[Markus Majer (mpathy)]

I also found something that can fix this:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/34d6b5b7864b

Whole discussion on that issue for example here:
http://www.nabble.com/1.11-bug-:-file-client-common.c:-line-25-(client_unlink):-assertion-failed:-(clients_count->-0)-td22736569.html

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Im working on updated packages for karmic.

Thanks
chuck

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package dovecot - 1:1.1.11-0ubuntu10

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dovecot (1:1.1.11-0ubuntu10) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/fix-pop3-assertion.patch: Fix assertion when logging in.
    (LP: #425407)

 -- Chuck Short <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:43:04 -0400