> From: info-cyrus-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:info-cyrus- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Simon Matter > > > Yesterday our Cyrus server stopped responding and I saw the following > > messages in the log file: > > > > > > > > Dec 7 18:13:55 email imaps[9684]: [ID 866726 local6.warning] DBERROR > > db4: PANIC: Invalid argument > > > > Dec 7 18:13:55 email imaps[9684]: [ID 864961 local6.crit] DBERROR: > > critical database situation > > > > Dec 7 18:13:55 email master[248]: [ID 684980 local6.warning] service > > imaps pid 9684 in READY state: term > > > > inated abnormally > > > > Dec 7 18:13:55 email imaps[9682]: [ID 866726 local6.warning] DBERROR > > db4: PANIC: fatal region error dete > > > > cted; run recovery > > > > > > > > The last 3 lines (or variations of them) were repeated over and over. I > > was able to fix the server by shutting down Cyrus, running "ctl_cyrusdb > > -r", and restarting Cyrus. > > > > > > > > 1) What caused the PANIC: Invalid argument? Is it a Cyrus bug? > > Hm, no idea what happened here. My only suggestion is to move all db4 to > skiplist. I'm using the defaults, which means the mailbox DB is skiplist. I'm assuming the mailbox DB was hosed because the "ctl_mboxlist -d" didn't work before I ran the recover command and did work afterwards. > > 2) If the recovery had failed, I would have had to restore > > mailboxes.db from a backup. We have text backups of the mailbox db > > created by ctl_mboxlist. What is the proper procedure for restoring it? > > We would want to get rid of the corrupt data, which would involve > > deleting mailboxes.db, but are there other files that should also be > > deleted? > > Importing mailboxes.db should be done via "ctl_mboxlist -u". From my > experience it may be needed to wipe the contents of the directory > [configdir]/db/ before creating new databases. Otherwise parts of the old > db environment are still there and disturbe you. Thanks for this information. > Simon > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
