Comment 11 for bug 774852

Hi Serge:

Thanks a lot for your comment - the getrlimit() behaviour is indeed puzzling!

Having a closer look at my system, I believe I found the reason, though. The Ubuntu upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 failed to change the bootloader config (yaboot on Mac's) to boot the kernel coming with the new release. As a result, I was still running 2.6.36.2 (self-compiled, as I had to remove some graphics stuff - the Mac shipped with a special Apple OEM ATI card, which didn't work with the stock kernel; different story). Sorry, but I really forgot to look at the proper kernel version!

I manually changed yaboot.conf, rebooted - and now postfix runs again, *without* the getrlimit issue! This looks like a glibc vs. kernel incompatibility. Maybe this is also the reason while Patrick van Oostrom (#6) has similar effects on i386? Interesting that *no* other application showed similar effects.

From my pov, you could close this one (Tag "user too stupid" :-/ )...

Thanks again for your help,
Albrecht.