On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:15:53 +0100, Andrew Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Cyrus has been installed here just a few weeks ago, and after some hard >> days it was working smoothly and very well. Until suddenly, sadly today >> it started to fail completely with this error message in mail.warn, >> mail.error and syslog: >> >> cyrus/imap[..]: DBERROR: skiplist recovery /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db: 0090 should be ADD or DELETE >> cyrus/imap[..]: DBERROR: opening /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db: cyrusdb error > > You'll need to fix the corruption of the mailboxes.db file. It is a > skiplist format file in your case, so do a google search for > "skiplist.py". You'll find a python utility that can do some better > recovery than the cyrus tools. The example is for cyrus seen-state files, > but the same should work on the mailboxes.db as well. Fine, I succeeded with that! Did check the auto backup files before too, but they were all identical. It was too late probably. Then I used the skiplist.py from here: http://oss.netfarm.it/python-cyrus.php python ~/skiplist.py mailboxes.db >mailboxes.txt rn mailboxes.db mailboxes.err cvt_cyrusdb /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.txt flat /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db skiplist chown cyrus mailboxes.db Fixed! Okay then, now it works, but how often will an error like this occur, can I do something to prevent it? First I thought of "0090" as some sort of error code, and I found only two error incidents with /line/ 0090 in Google... ;) ...but it is much more numerous. Can this be related to shutting down and rebooting the system? Could be a coincidence of course, but just after rebooting the error was there. Can it be related to Squatter? By default, Squatter was not set, but some days before the error I set Squatter to an hourly "nice" run. Now I turned it off again. > You should also setup a cronjob to dump the mailboxes.db file to plaintext > periodically (so it can be backed up). Something like this works here: > > 58 * * * * cyrus /usr/local/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d > /var/spool/cyrus/config/mailboxes.db.dump Yes, I'll do that, though it's more like holding ready the plaster instead of preventing the injury. This has to be written to /etc/crontab like Squatter, correct? How often should it be running? Maybe it's only neccessary when new IMAP users and/or folders have been created?? Thank you for all help! I feel queasy with an error that has no apparent reason. I wanted to build a system that can run without administration for months and, maybe, would sustain even a rare power failure. But there was no power failure and no sign of a disc error either... :-( Kind regards, Gregor ---- 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
