[cobalt-users] RaQ1 Update/Patch Woes (BIND, vim and POP)

["Jeffery L. JT Vogt" <lfm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, so Rene' just answered my last question.

Now a bit of a "horror story" and a request for assistance.  Please
excuse me if this is "old news", but I'm usually on the developer's list
and only now joined this list.

This last Sunday, I applied a number of patches to my RaQ1, including
the last 7 (yes, I was a bit behind).

I spent a good portion of Sunday night, all day Monday and this morning
discovering that the new software patches for BIND are a bit brain-dead.
That is, the zone files they generate are in the incorrect format.  I
have to hand-edit all the zone files to make them correct before BIND
will correctly serve them out.

Ok, so that one's fixed.  But problem #2 cropped up.  It appears that
one of the patches (perhaps the ncurses one?) did something to vim that
disables it from correctly finding the terminfo entry for anything
except its builtin terminal types.

Pain in the butt, but not a show stopper.  So let's not worry about that
one.

However, problem #3 *is* a showstopper on the order of the first
problem.

Now, none of my users can get their email through POP or IMAP.

The symptoms are in both Netscape and Outlook that the client connects
(and I see a good connect message in /var/log/messages), they are asked
for their password and upon entering it, they get "A Network Error
Occurred: Connection Reset by Peer" (which of course indicates the RaQ).
Any subsaquent attempts error out with the message that the mailbox is
locked and, indeed, a mailbox lock file exists (with a PID of a
nonexistant process).

So, it *appears* that the qpopper or imap server thread for that user's 
session is dying, though I find no core files.

This is a MAJOR show-stopper right now.  I've checked through
Knowledgebase and was able to find several questions, none of which
really helped (I checked out all of them and their suggestions) as none
were exactly on-topic.  I've sent 4 emails to Cobalt regarding these
problems in past 3 days and gotten 0 response (which is odd, usually
they're within 24-48 hours).

So, unless someone out there (and I'm hoping someone is) has some bright
ideas, I'm pretty much forced to pay for support for a security upgrade
that broke my system (and before you jump on that one, note that this
system is pretty close to "stock" out of the box, the mods I've made
have nothing whatsoever do do with POP, IMAP, etc.).

Suggestions??  Anyone run into this?

-Arf, JT
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