On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Andreas wrote: > Now I restart cyrus. And get this in the logs: > ctl_cyrusdb[30046]: DBERROR db4: /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db: unexpected file type or > format > ctl_cyrusdb[30046]: DBERROR db4: Recovery function for LSN 1 4471396 failed > ctl_cyrusdb[30046]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: Invalid argument > ctl_cyrusdb[30046]: DBERROR: critical database situation > > It seems ctl_cyrusdb is attempting to read mailboxes.db as a DB file and not > skiplist. > I *suppose* this happens because it is trying to recover the database using the log > file > which was left there and contains BDB transactions. AFAIK, however, this type of > recovery > procedure is called "catastrophic" by the berkeley folks: a normal recovery procedure > would only touch log files which contain uncommited transactions. Looking at the > code, I > see that it is not performing catastrophic recovery (it's just using the DB_RECOVER > flag > when opening the environment), so I'm at a loss here. > > The only way to remedy this situation is to remove the relevant log files. > Anybody care to comment?
Its likely -- but did you remember to reconfigure cyrus to use skiplist to read the mailbox list? -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
