On 04/28/2015 08:31 PM, lowpass wrote:
I had done an upgrade of some packages. I listed those at the end of
my first message. I don't think any of them had anything to do with
cyrus, though. But i'd rebooted the server afterwards; i think that's
why the problem with cyrus began to appear.
Something, at some point, set cyrus-imapd-2.4 and cyrus-common-2.4 to
'deinstall', and a subsequent 'apt' command, even an upgrade, would then
cause the deinstallation to take hold. The actual setting of the dpkg
database to 'deinstall' may have happened some time ago.
The reboot would just be icing on the cake, as most pre-or-post-removal
scripts will stop the service (although that often doesn't work well).
# zgrep cyrus-imapd /var/log/apt/
I had already tried that. Nothing at all.
Just to be clear, that command, as you typed it above, will not work.
You need to run 'zgrep cyrus-imapd /var/log/apt/*'. Without the glob at
the end (*) you're just zgrepping the DIRENT. And, for the record,
zgrep will error with the <recursive> flag, "-R."
# sh -x /etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd start
+ LC_ALL=C
+ export LC_ALL
+ PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
+ PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
+ NAME=cyrmaster
+ DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cyrmaster
+ PIDFILE=/var/run/cyrmaster.pid
+ DESC=Cyrus IMAPd
+ test -x /usr/sbin/cyrmaster
+ exit 0
Good idea about shell debugging, thanks. In any case, it's failing
because cyrmaster no longer exists. :-(
Bron: no, nothing in syslog. I'd checked that first thing.
I'm mystified as to what has happened. I think i'll try to (re)install
those packages and see what comes of it. But, realistically, it looks
like i should rebuild the server.
You should be fine just doing an "# apt-get install cyrus-imapd-2.4
cyrus-common-2.4" since the config files are still in place. This
package re-installation shouldn't touch any existing data.
Cheers,
-nic
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Nic Bernstein <n...@onlight.com
<mailto:n...@onlight.com>> wrote:
You told us that you had run some apt commands prior to this
problem, but you haven't told us what they were. If you tried to
install something which "replaces" cyrus-imapd, you may have
forced its removal.
What does "zgrep cyrus-imapd /var/og/apt/*" show?
-nic
On 04/28/2015 07:38 PM, lowpass wrote:
Gadzooks! It appears that the server is actually missing some things.
# ls -l /usr/sbin/cyr*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2046 Mar 3 2014 /usr/sbin/cyrus
# ls -l /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 27 18:29 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 27 18:29 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2945 Mar 3 2014 init-helper*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4018 Mar 3 2014 makedirs*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4965 Mar 3 2014 upgrade-db*
# dpkg --get-selections | grep cyr
cyrus-admin-2.4 install
cyrus-clients-2.4 install
cyrus-common install
cyrus-common-2.4 deinstall
cyrus-imapd-2.4 deinstall
libcyrus-imap-perl24 install
hmmm ...
# dpkg-query -s cyrus-common-2.4
Package: cyrus-common-2.4
Status: deinstall ok config-files
...
# dpkg-query -s cyrus-imapd-2.4
Package: cyrus-imapd-2.4
Status: deinstall ok config-files
This is saying that the packages have been selected for removal.
But, a) I certainly have not done so; and b) they already seem to
be gone. And i see nothing at all about them in appt's history logs.
Deep breaths.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:49 PM, lowpass <zijn.digi...@gmail.com
<mailto:zijn.digi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks for the quick response, Bron. The symlink is ok.
# ls -l /var/run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 18 2014 /var/run -> /run/
I tried creating the dir myself as you suggested:
# mkdir /run/cyrus
# chown cyrus /run/cyrus/
# service cyrus-imapd start
[nothing]
I tried removing the --quiet flag from the startup script
with same (non) results.
What about the pid? As i understand, it's not cyrus that
creates that on startrup. In any case, it's NOT being
created. From /etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd:
NAME=cyrmaster
PIDFILE="/var/run/${NAME}.pid"
I've posted a message on the Ubuntu forum as well, as i've a
feeling the problem is not with cyrus. I was hoping, though,
that another cyrus user might have run into this.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Bron Gondwana
<br...@fastmail.fm <mailto:br...@fastmail.fm>> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015, at 08:46 AM, lowpass wrote:
I do have socket and lock dirs under /var/lib/cyrus but
they were last modified several years ago and seem to be
left over from some other config. Other dirs there have
seen more recent activity. Everything seems to be
pointing towards the socket & lock dirs being created
under /run but there's nothing there.
/run is a tmpfs which gets created fresh on each reboot.
Cyrus starts as user 'cyrus' and has no permission to
create the directories it needs.
Your init script should create the directories - but if
you moved them somewhere other than where the package
expects them to be, then it won't create intermediate
directories for you.
So, here's the thing:
1) double check that /var/run and /run are the same place
- they're mostly a symlink in recent Debian/Ubuntu
systems. If not, I suggest that you audit your
configuration to be all in /var/run or all in /run
(probably a good idea anyway for more consistency.
2) run these commands as root:
mkdir /run/cyrus
chown cyrus /run/cyrus
3) either put those commands in a startup script that
runs before Cyrus starts, or edit the init script for
Cyrus - though note that if you edit the init script,
you'll have to re-apply those edits on upgrade.
Unfortunately, this isn't something we can fix in the
Cyrus binaries. They try to create the directories, but
they just plain don't have permissions to do so at that
stage of the process.
Regards,
Bron.
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