I also ran into a weird issue where a "find" command or an "ls" command would say files weren't found or didn't exist, but using vi or similar, I could access them. There were IOERRORs in the imapd.log file about these missing files too, usually a message file. I found that on Sun Solaris 8 and 9, there is a patch that needs to be applied when a filesystem has lots of files, like a cyrus server. It has to do with DNLC which can't handle the large number of files unless the patch is applied or the workaround (turning off DNLC) is used. For those interested, the SunSolve SRDB article is 76085 and the patch (for Solaris 9) is 113073-13.
-Shawn
Simon Matter wrote:
We recently had a power failure during a storm and the server required an fsck before it would mount up the file systems (eventhough I did have logging/journaling turned on). After running 2 fscks it seems clean, but there are issue with the cyrus files themselves. I had a problem with the mailboxes.db and the .seen files. I converted all these to "flat" using cvt_cyrusdb and back again to skiplist (I removed the originals before converting back). However, I'm still getting a lot of cyrusdb errors via the imap, pop3 and lmtpunix processes. I tried reconstructing those accounts with the errors but the problem returns in a short period of time. I notice that there is the cyrus.index.NEW and cyrus.cache.NEW files in the directory with their mail files. Running reconstruct removed them but they return with the next set of errors. So, it seems something else is causing the process to fail and leave the .NEW files around. I also tried removing the .NEW and the cyrus.cache and cyrus.index files totally before running a reconstruct, but that didn't seem to help. Any other suggestion on things to look at or try.
We are running cyrus 2.2.5 (I know ... I should upgrade to 2.2.8) on
I'm not sure but you may be hit now by the problem introduced after 2.2.3 which are all solved with 2.2.8. That's why I _strongly_ recommend to upgrade before you try anything else!
Simon
Solaris 9. Everything was working great before the power failure. Here's some of the error messages.
Aug 13 10:46:05 cyrus pop3[6427]: [ID 237943 local6.notice] login: somewhereat.TCNJ.EDU [192.168.1.1] mary plaintext User logged in Aug 13 10:46:26 cyrus lmtpunix[25811]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR: error fetching user.mary: cyrusdb error Aug 13 10:46:26 cyrus lmtpunix[25811]: [ID 860734 local6.debug] verify_user(user.mary) failed: System I/O error
Aug 13 10:47:46 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 277583 local6.notice] login: mymail.TCNJ.EDU [192.168.100.1] kirk plaintext User logged in Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR: error fetching user.kirk: cyrusdb error Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 677757 local6.debug] seen_db: user kirk opened /var/imap/user/k/kirk.seen Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR: error fetching user.kirk: cyrusdb error Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 736213 local6.debug] open: user kirk opened INBOX Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR: error fetching user.kirk: cyrusdb error Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 736213 local6.debug] open: user kirk opened INBOX Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR: error fetching user.kirk: cyrusdb error
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-Shawn Sivy The College of New Jersey
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