> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Andrew Morgan might have said: > >> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Mike Eggleston wrote: >> >> >It looks like there is just one user that when that user connects to >> >cyrus the imapd starts coring and when a message is sent to that user's >> >address then lmtpd starts coring. How do I find out what is wrong the >> >user's account and why these processes are coring? >> >> In my experience, this can happen when a user has a corrupted seen file. >> Locate the user's seen file and remove it. >> >> Andy > > Thank you. I removed the user's seen file and everything started working > normally. Any idea why this file got corrupted, how to recover from the > corruption other than deleting the file (/var/lib/imap/user/?/$USER.seen), > and how to keep the corruption from happening again. This file was > corrupted at my site in the middle of the night (sometime after 23:19 > local). The user was not actively using IMAP, but the user was still > logged into a workstation and had M$ Outlook running. Well, now that we are talking about it I remember that I once had something similar. As I said before 2.3.1 was early in the 2.3 line and maybe there were bugs which have since be fixed upstream. To fix skiplist files I thinks you usually have to strip the corrupted bytes from the file. I think it logs the position in hex where the corruption begins when cyrus tries to access the file or when you try to convert a file with cvt_cyrusdb to another format. My cyrus-imapd rpms include this script http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/cyrus-imapd/scripts/skipfix/skipfix.sh which helps to fix the file. Maybe you could give it a try an report back. Simon > > Problem symptoms: > lmtpd cored receiving email > imapd cored when the user connected > lots of messages in /var/log/maillog referring to: > master[2438]: process 2482 exited, signaled to death by 7 > higher than normal system load > > Problem solution: > remove the user's seen file at /var/lib/imap/user/?/$USER.seen > no restarting of cyrus required after removing the broken file > > Environment: > Fedora Core 5 (current patches) > # rpm -qa | grep cyrus > cyrus-imapd-devel-2.3.1-2.8.fc5 > cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.21-10 > cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-10 > cyrus-imapd-utils-2.3.1-2.8.fc5 > cyrus-sasl-ldap-2.1.21-10 > cyrus-imapd-2.3.1-2.8.fc5 > cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-10 > > Mike > ---- 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
