On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:08:47AM -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote: > Bron Gondwana wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:40:28PM -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote: >>> Darn. This is caused by mailbox corruption again. My script to detect >>> corruption wasn't working properly. Any idea how we can track down >>> what is causing the corruption? >> >> Yeah, I was going to say. >> >> It's corrupted cache file offset pointers. Assuming you upgraded >> this from an earlier version of Cyrus at some point, > > I believe we started at 1.5.19 and then migrated up through the 2.0 , > 2.2 series. Our last major update was from 2.2.13 to 2.3.11. Currently > on 2.3.13 > > cyrus.expunge >> and cyrus.index files had issues maintaining cache pointer >> consistency. You pretty much have to reconstruct all your mailboxes >> to guarantee consistency I think. > > This latest list of corrupted mailboxes includes many that were > correupted a couple of weeks ago (including mine) so this is the second > time they have been reconstructed. Not so good. Crap. And this is on 2.3.13? I don't see any changes touching that code in the post 2.3.13 changelogs... >> I'm tempted to protect the code from crashing though... we don't >> use unexpunge at FastMail, which is probably why I haven't already >> done so. >> >> Something like the attached should do it. I'll test it more >> completely and commit it to CVS for 2.3.14 (since Ken hasn't >> cut a release candidate yet!) > > Thanks for the patch. Hey, don't use it though - it doesn't even compile! It was a first draft. I'll give you a real patch soon... been working on doing it _properly_ :) > Would ipurge be causing the corruption? We currently purge e-mails older > than 31 days on a weekly basis. I will turn that off for a bit (since > disk space is not as much of an issue as it used to be) and see if the > corruption returns. Oooh... maybe. I don't use ipurge. Let me know what you find with turning it off. I've never even _looked_ at that code. Bron. ---- 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
