Re: rebuilt cyrus server weirdness

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I renamed that file from 3056 to 3056. I could now delete it, but it
still was not readable

cheers

Bernhard

On 29/03/2008, Bernhard Rohrer <bernhard.graylion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> on second looks it seems that no file has a trailing '.', so that
>  doesn't seem to be it? I'll rename and will see where that ends
>
>  cheers
>
>
>  B
>
>  On 29/03/2008, Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Hi folks
>  >  >
>  >  > I am running a cyrus server for a few users, mainly myself and I
>  >  > recently had a catastropic failure that led to me reconstructing the
>  >  > server from an older installation.
>  >  >
>  >  > OS is Ubuntu Gutsy, Cyrus 2.2
>  >  >
>  >  > I copied /var/lib/cyrus and /var/spool/cyrus back and followed the
>  >  > instructions here to get my databases back. this works fine in
>  >  > principle, but leaves me with this problem:
>  >  >
>  >  > In my Thunderbird I see a bunchload of empty messages, that show read,
>  >  > unread, replied, forwarded marks and nothing else. no subject, no
>  >  > contents.
>  >  >
>  >  > When I try to delete on I get an error message that the IMAP server
>  >  > reported an IO error and syslog says: Mar 29 01:33:41 collab
>  >  > cyrus/imap[26479]: IOERROR: opening 3056.: No such file or directory
>  >  >
>  >  > This screenshot here (http://www.sm-wg.net/Thunderbird.png) shows in
>  >  > the background said Thunderbird with the email that I tried to delete
>  >  > marked and in the foreground midnight commander showing the very
>  >  > directory and message.
>  >  >
>  >  > root@collab:/var/spool/cyrus/mail/user/houselion# ls -al 3056
>  >  > -rw-r--r-- 1 cyrus mail 4369 2008-03-13 00:11 3056
>  >
>  >
>  > I guess you messed up your mailspool somehow. Cyrus-IMAPd uses per message
>  >  files with the name "####.". The file you're looking at doesn't have the
>  >  leading dot, so somehow that can not work and I wonder how that happened.
>  >
>  >
>  >  Simon
>  >
>  >
>  >  >
>  >  > cyrus clearly also has the permissions to access this.
>  >  >
>  >  > hjaelp!
>  >  >
>  >  > what else do you need? is there a verbose flag that I can set
>  >  > somewhere to get more info?
>  >  >
>  >  > Thanks
>  >  >
>  >  > Bernhard
>  >
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>  >
>  >
>  >
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