Hi Alexander, db3 on hppa had a bug (#2666685) which caused this exact behaviour. Please make sure you have at least db3 version 3.2.9-21 installed.
Thanks, Jochen > tags 295076 + unreproducible moreinfo > thanks > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Alexander Barton wrote: > > When I start Cyrus 2.1 on Debian on HPPA, ctl_cyrusdb (which is started > > automatically as configured in /etc/cyrus.conf) hangs forever. The same is > > true when I start it manually. > > This usually means the db environment is gone. kaput. corrupted. busted. > > > Is this a problem with Berkeley DB 3 on HPPA? > > Probably. > > Stop cyrus. Make sure (thorough ps, etc) that it is really stopped. cd to > /var/lib/cyrus. > > Now, run db3_recover. Does it hang? if yes, you're in trouble, and you will > have to rm ALL the dbs and ALL the logs. There is a backup of the mailboxes > db > in /var/backups which can be used to restore the mailboxes database using > ctl_mboxlist. You will lose some information. > > If db3_recover worked, rm the deliver.db and tls_sessions.db databases, and > make sure all files have owner "cyrus". Then start Cyrus again (and good > luck). > > Did it work? BTW, have you experienced any power outages, cyrus crashes, > memory failures or anything else that could have corrupted a db3 > environment? It is damn difficult to corrupt it on ia32, at least... > > Look at the db3 changelogs, see if there are any suspicious changes listed > for hppa. > > -- > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > Henrique Holschuh > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]