On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Mike Eggleston might have said: > 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. > > 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 Just a two-year-later followup. This happened again during the night. I found a single entry in /var/log/maillog saying that /var/lib/imap/deliver.db is corrupt. All other messages after that deal with not being able to deliver messages from sendmail to lmtpd. I did a google search for this error and found my previous 'Solved' message. Though this message says I don't have to stop cyrus (Red Hat: # service cyrus-imapd stop) to move/remove /var/lib/imap/deliver.db, I stopped cyrus anyway and copied the entire /var/lib/imap directory out of the way in case this is not the problem. I then moved deliver.db to deliver.db.100427 and restarted cyrus (# service cyrus-imapd start). Now everything is working right. No changes to OS nor cyrus, so the above versions are still correct for my site. commands used: # service cyrus-imapd stop # cd /var/lib # cp -r -p imap /opt/data/imap.100427.0824 # cd /var/lib/imap # mv deliver.db deliver.db.100427.0825 # service cyrus-imapd start # sendmail -v -q 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
