i'm running cyrus-2.0.16 wih db3-3.2.9 on debian linux 3.0 (glibc-2.2.5).
fairly often (every 1-2 days) a user has trouble wih some mail folders. he or she cannot do any operation on the folders. the solution so far is to remove all cyrus.* files in that folder and run reconstruct. there are no entries in the logfiles indicating a problem. the filesystem is ext3. what can cause the corruption and how could i prevent it? yesterday i was forced to restart the cyrus-imap server. a user could not access his inbox (see problem above). the reconstruct didn't return. delivery processes didnt return. i tried to get a mailbox list using cyradm, no success but i got the following error message: # grep DBERROR /var/log/imapd.log Sep 24 16:54:15 thurn imapd[26923]: DBERROR: error closing: DB_INCOMPLETE: Cache flush was unable to complete Sep 24 16:54:15 thurn imapd[26923]: DBERROR: error closing mailboxes: cyrusdb error Sep 24 16:54:46 thurn imapd[28686]: DBERROR db3: 2 lockers ... Sep 24 17:07:20 thurn lmtpd[28042]: DBERROR db3: 10 lockers ... Sep 24 17:14:40 thurn reconstruct[30462]: DBERROR db3: 15 lockers ... Sep 24 17:20:03 thurn ctl_mboxlist[30761]: DBERROR db3: 20 lockers ... Sep 24 17:42:50 thurn imapd[31137]: DBERROR db3: 43 lockers so i think, the problem is/was the mailbox db. i looked at pid 26923 and found the following: #grep 'imapd\[26923\]' /var/log/imapd.log Sep 24 16:37:35 thurn imapd[26923]: accepted connection Sep 24 16:54:15 thurn imapd[26923]: Connection reset by peer, closing connection Sep 24 16:54:15 thurn imapd[26923]: DBERROR: error closing: DB_INCOMPLETE: Cache flush was unable to complete Sep 24 16:54:15 thurn imapd[26923]: DBERROR: error closing mailboxes: cyrusdb error so it seems imapd was unable to finish the db operation because the connections was terminated from the remote side (i'm just guessing). what could i do in such cases apart from restarting? would you suggest upgrading to 2.1.9? i'm reluctant to do such a major upgrade if i'm not sure it solves my problems. thanks for your time. -ap -- Andreas Piesk, Netzwerkadministration Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH & Co KG Helstorfer Str. 7, D-30625 Hannover Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fon: +49 511 5352-477
