Re: DBERROR: skiplist recovery errors

[John A. Tamplin]

I have a user mailbox that is genering thousands of these same "DBERROR: skiplist recovery: xxxx should be ADD or DELETE" messages. This machine hasn't been rebooted, and Cyrus hasn't even been restarted since this particular user was converted (on the Cyrus side, conversion entails simply doing multi-appends via IMAP). This is 2.1.11 on Solaris 9.

It seems like this has to be some bug in the skiplist code. This user does have one of the larger mailboxes (1121 folders with 534M of total mail), but there are some with larger. What information would be helpful to track down the problem?

Is there any way to recover the seen state of this user? I know I can delete the .seen file and it will recreate it, but I am sure this will be an inconvenience to this user and why would I expect it to not happen again?

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John A. Tamplin
Unix Systems Administrator