Hello, we have a problem to restore Cyrus mailboxes from an installation of SuSE 9.2 which we want to transfer do a SuSE 10.0 installation. We have backuped the directories /var/lib/imap and /var/spool/imap and copied them to the new installation. after restarting Cyrus syslog was flooded with messages <snip> Apr 19 01:00:15 tux saslauthd[15007]: detach_tty : master pid is: 15007 Apr 19 01:00:15 tux saslauthd[15007]: ipc_init : listening on socket: /var/run/sasl2//mux Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: setrlimit: Unable to set file descriptors limit to -1: Operation not permitted Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: retrying with 1024 (current max) Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: process started Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15023]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb Apr 19 01:00:22 tux ctl_cyrusdb[15023]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux ctl_cyrusdb[15023]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux ctl_cyrusdb[15023]: recovering cyrus databases Apr 19 01:00:22 tux ctl_cyrusdb[15023]: skiplist: recovered /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db (112 records, 13252 bytes) in 0 seconds Apr 19 01:00:22 tux ctl_cyrusdb[15023]: skiplist: recovered /var/lib/imap/annotations.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds Apr 19 01:00:22 tux ctl_cyrusdb[15023]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux ctl_cyrusdb[15023]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux ctl_cyrusdb[15023]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: process 15023 exited, status 75 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15024]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/idled Apr 19 01:00:22 tux idled[15024]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux idled[15024]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: process 15024 exited, status 75 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: SLPRegister [service:imap://tux.:143] Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: Error registering service with slp -20 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: SLPRegister [service:pop3://tux.:110] Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: Error registering service with slp -20 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: SLPRegister [service:sieve://tux.:2000] Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: Error registering service with slp -20 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: ready for work Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15025]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb Apr 19 01:00:22 tux ctl_cyrusdb[15025]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux ctl_cyrusdb[15025]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15026]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: process 15025 exited, status 75 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux lmtpunix[15026]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux lmtpunix[15026]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: process 15026 exited, status 75 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15022]: service lmtpunix pid 15026 in READY state: terminated abnormally Apr 19 01:00:22 tux master[15027]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Apr 19 01:00:22 tux lmtpunix[15027]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:22 tux lmtpunix[15027]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:00:24 tux master[15022]: process 15027 exited, status 75 Apr 19 01:00:24 tux master[15022]: service lmtpunix pid 15027 in READY state: terminated abnormally Apr 19 01:00:24 tux master[15028]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Apr 19 01:00:24 tux lmtpunix[15028]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:24 tux lmtpunix[15028]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:00:34 tux master[15022]: process 15028 exited, status 75 Apr 19 01:00:34 tux master[15022]: service lmtpunix pid 15028 in READY state: terminated abnormally Apr 19 01:00:34 tux master[15029]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Apr 19 01:00:34 tux lmtpunix[15029]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:34 tux lmtpunix[15029]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:00:44 tux master[15022]: process 15029 exited, status 75 Apr 19 01:00:44 tux master[15022]: service lmtpunix pid 15029 in READY state: terminated abnormally Apr 19 01:00:44 tux master[15031]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Apr 19 01:00:44 tux lmtpunix[15031]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:44 tux lmtpunix[15031]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:00:44 tux master[15022]: process 15031 exited, status 75 Apr 19 01:00:44 tux master[15022]: service lmtpunix pid 15031 in READY state: terminated abnormally Apr 19 01:00:44 tux master[15032]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Apr 19 01:00:44 tux lmtpunix[15032]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:44 tux lmtpunix[15032]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:00:54 tux master[15022]: process 15032 exited, status 75 Apr 19 01:00:54 tux master[15022]: service lmtpunix pid 15032 in READY state: terminated abnormally Apr 19 01:00:54 tux master[15033]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Apr 19 01:00:54 tux lmtpunix[15033]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:00:54 tux lmtpunix[15033]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:01:04 tux master[15022]: process 15033 exited, status 75 Apr 19 01:01:04 tux master[15022]: service lmtpunix pid 15033 in READY state: terminated abnormally Apr 19 01:01:04 tux master[15034]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Apr 19 01:01:04 tux lmtpunix[15034]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:01:04 tux lmtpunix[15034]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:01:14 tux master[15022]: process 15034 exited, status 75 Apr 19 01:01:14 tux master[15022]: service lmtpunix pid 15034 in READY state: terminated abnormally Apr 19 01:01:14 tux master[15035]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Apr 19 01:01:14 tux lmtpunix[15035]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:01:14 tux lmtpunix[15035]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:01:24 tux master[15022]: process 15035 exited, status 75 Apr 19 01:01:24 tux master[15022]: service lmtpunix pid 15035 in READY state: terminated abnormally Apr 19 01:01:24 tux master[15036]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/lmtpd Apr 19 01:01:24 tux lmtpunix[15036]: DBERROR � : db4 Apr 19 01:01:24 tux lmtpunix[15036]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 19 01:01:28 tux master[15022]: SLPderegister [service:imap://tux.:143] Apr 19 01:01:28 tux master[15022]: SLPderegister [service:pop3://tux.:110] Apr 19 01:01:28 tux master[15022]: SLPderegister [service:sieve://tux.:2000] Apr 19 01:01:28 tux master[15022]: exiting on SIGTERM/SIGINT </snip> is there any possibility to retrieve the data from the old mailboxes and restore them to the new ones? The versions of cysrus are 2.2.12 for the new one and 2.2.8 for the old one Thanks in advance Harry ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
