Hi, uff. You are right. I haven't remember that they are saved there. So the most important thing is present. I will try to repair the metadata. Big thanks! Regards, Michael Bron Gondwana schrieb: > Luckily for you, you haven't lost any actual emails, just meta > data. The emails are still on the disk as individual files. > Do you know which specific DB file is corrupted? > > You can probably nuke deliver.db at start up (we do). Worst > case, just move your mailboxes.db somewhere else and run > reconstruct on every username. Pretty horrible to have to go > to that extent. > > Emails should be in /var/spool/imap or equivalent location on > your setup. The layout is {letter}/user/{username}. We keep > our mail in /var/cyrus/{instance name} so my emails are actually > in: > > /var/cyrus/imap5/data2/b/user/brong - look for the > 'partition-default:' entry in your imapd.conf to find the > correct path. > > Individual messages are called '{uid}.', so the first message is > '1.', etc. > > Regards, > > Bron. > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:45:18PM +0200, Michael Obster wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a big problem with my Cyrus and my BDB here. I'm using Cyrus >> 2.2.12 with BDB 4.2.52. >> >> When I'm starting Cyrus, I get this error in my imapd.log: >> ------- >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19525]: setrlimit: Unable to set file >> descriptors limit to -1: Operation not permitted >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19525]: retrying with 1024 (current max) >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19525]: process started >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19526]: about to exec >> /opt/cyrus/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19526]: DBERROR db4: Recovery >> function for LSN 8 7404244 failed on backward pass >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19526]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: Is a >> directory >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19526]: DBERROR: critical database >> situation >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19525]: process 19526 exited, status 75 >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19525]: ready for work >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19527]: about to exec >> /opt/cyrus/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19527]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal >> region error detected; run recovery >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19527]: DBERROR: critical database >> situation >> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19525]: process 19527 exited, status 75 >> -------- >> >> So I tried a reconstruct -m and a reconstruct -r user/username on a >> specific mailbox and I'm getting this: >> -------- >> Aug 30 22:41:08 alpha1 reconstruct[19571]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal >> region error detected; run recovery >> Aug 30 22:41:08 alpha1 reconstruct[19571]: DBERROR: critical database >> situation >> -------- >> >> Running "ctl_cyrusdb -r" results in a: >> -------- >> ug 30 22:41:50 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19582]: DBERROR db4: Recovery function >> for LSN 8 7404244 failed on backward pass >> Aug 30 22:41:50 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19582]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: Is a >> directory >> Aug 30 22:41:50 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19582]: DBERROR: critical database >> situation >> -------- >> >> Damn BDB, but HOW CAN I GET MY MAILS BACK? I'm at one's wits' end, so >> any help would be very great because I have some very important mails there! >> >> Cheers, >> Michael Obster >> >> ---- >> 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 ---- 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