[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.68 panic: top_env problems

[Matt Smith]

Hi List,

I upgraded to MD 2.68 (from 2.61, I missed a few!).
After checking the Changelog for incompatibilities, I thought it should
be a smooth upgrade.

However, after installing and firing it up, I kept receiving the error:
"all slaves are busy", and then;
Slave 5 stderr: panic: top_env
Slave 5 died prematurely -- check your filter rules

After going through my filter (and replacing with a clean one), removing
SpamAssasin etc I had no luck in finding the cause.
I tried running embedded perl and not (given the changelog entry
relating to this on FreeBSD - I tried anyway ;)

I ended up downgrading to 2.67, and with my original filter, it worked
without fault or change.
I have noticed that the MD pre-requisites spec Perl 5.8.9, and I'm
running 5.8.8, but I wouldn't have thought such a minor revision would
have had an effect?

I know this is an old system, due to be retired, but it's working for
now ;)

Can anyone shed light?

Cheers,
Matt

System details follow (MD features, Perl version, uname)

My mimedefang.pl -features
MIMEDefang version 2.67

Archive::Zip                  : yes
HTML::Parser                  : yes
HTML::TokeParser              : yes
Net::DNS                      : yes
Path:CONFDIR                  : yes (/etc/mail)
Path:QUARANTINEDIR            : yes (/var/spool/MD-Quarantine)
Path:SENDMAIL                 : yes (/usr/sbin/sendmail)
Path:SPOOLDIR                 : yes (/var/spool/MIMEDefang)
SpamAssassin                  : yes
Virus:CLAMAV                  : yes (/usr/local/bin/clamscan)
Virus:CLAMD                   : yes (/usr/local/sbin/clamd)
HTMLCleaner                   : no
Unix::Syslog                  : no
Virus:AVP                     : no
Virus:AVP5                    : no
Virus:BDC                     : no
Virus:CSAV                    : no
Virus:FPROT                   : no
Virus:FPROTD                  : no
Virus:FPROTD6                 : no
Virus:FPSCAN                  : no
Virus:FSAV                    : no
Virus:HBEDV                   : no
Virus:KAVSCANNER              : no
Virus:NAI                     : no
Virus:NOD32                   : no
Virus:NVCC                    : no
Virus:SAVSCAN                 : no
Virus:SOPHIE                  : no
Virus:SOPHOS                  : no
Virus:SymantecCSS             : no
Virus:TREND                   : no
Virus:TROPHIE                 : no
Virus:VEXIRA                  : no

Anomy::HTMLCleaner            : missing
Archive::Zip                  : Version 1.16
Digest::SHA1                  : Version 2.11
HTML::Parser                  : Version 3.54
HTML::TokeParser              : Version 2.37
IO::Socket                    : Version 1.29
IO::Stringy                   : Version 2.110
MIME::Base64                  : Version 3.07
MIME::Tools                   : Version 5.420
MIME::Words                   : Version 5.420
Mail::Mailer                  : Version 1.74
Mail::SpamAssassin            : Version 3.002004
Net::DNS                      : Version 0.57
Unix::Syslog                  : missing

And
perl -vi
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

And
uname -a
Linux <hostname-sanitised> 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 #1 SMP Sun May 21 15:01:10
EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux