On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Tom Plancon wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running a mail server with cyrus imap and postfix. I've had a bit of a > disaster where a runaway process, not related to email, filled my root > directory. I've take care of that and got most of the space back but now I'm > not receiving email and maillog is reporting this: > > Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: DBERROR db4: Commonly caused by > moving a database from one database environment > Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: DBERROR db4: to another without > clearing the database LSNs, or by removing all of > Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: DBERROR db4: the log files from a > database environment > Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: DBERROR db4: > /var/lib/imap/deliver.db: unexpected file type or format > Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: DBERROR: opening > /var/lib/imap/deliver.db: Invalid argument > Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: DBERROR: opening > /var/lib/imap/deliver.db: cyrusdb error > Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: FATAL: lmtpd: unable to init > duplicate delivery database > Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican master[3213]: process 32764 exited, status 75 > Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican master[3213]: service lmtpunix pid 32764 in READY > state: terminated abnormally > Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican master[32765]: about to exec > /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/lmtpd > > I've had to reconstruct mail boxes before but nothing like this! Any idea > how to repair this mess? I'm running CentOS 6. 1. Stop Cyrus 2. Delete /var/lib/imap/deliver.db 3. Delete the contents of /var/lib/imap/db/ 4. Start Cyrus deliver.db contains (mainly) transient data about messages. If you delete it, you may get a repeated message from anyone using a vacation responder, but otherwise there are no negative consequences. Andy ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
