Hi there, i've an ispconfig server baed on debin 7, in the last 3 days, dovecot started crash during the night. The error i've found in log is this Code: dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 31 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards That error started about after 1 month that ve had migrated from Esxi 4.1 to vcloud director, don't know if this can influence dovecot in some ways (sounds strage). Any idea?
The problem is that the timer of your vm is not stable, so that system time differs more then 2 seconds from real time so dovecot shuts itself down to avoid problems with mail delivery that can be caused by wrong timestamps. You can fix that by installing / activating NTP on the host machine of the server and inside the vm. If you use a nfs storage for the emails, then install ntp on the nfs server as well.
Hi there, i've checked ntp and he's working fine, the date is correct. I don't know if the vcloud director got date syncronized, i hope yes...
The error message is clear about the cause, your time moved backwards and that should never happen so dovecot has to do a emergency shutdown. Thats a common issue e.g. on vmware servers and even noted in the vmware knowledge database that ntp has to be enabled in the vmware host server then. So the issue must be the same in your vcloud system.
Hi there, i've found the the sync with host was not syncronized. If i configure the sync with the host system, i've to disable ntp? (First time this problem heappen to me, worst provider ever...)
