[KLUG Members] Cyrus IMAP problems!

[Phillip Hofmeister]

A quick google search returns this page:

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=28915

It may be able to help...I don't know.

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 at 01:21:17PM -0400, Bruce Smith wrote:
> This just happened to me for the 2nd time since migrating to cyrus imapd.
> The whole system quits accepting email (no lmtp) and imap/pop3 won't work.
> This is a _small_ excerpt from /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail master[16556]: process 27747 exited, status 75
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail master[16556]: service imaps pid 27747 in READY state: terminated abnormally
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail master[16556]: process 27750 exited, status 75
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail master[16556]: service imap pid 27750 in READY state: terminated abnormally
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail pop3[27748]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail pop3[27748]: DBERROR: critical database situation
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail pop3s[27751]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail pop3s[27751]: DBERROR: critical database situation
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail master[27756]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/imapd
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail imap[27756]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail imap[27756]: DBERROR: critical database situation
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail deliver[27760]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail deliver[27760]: DBERROR: critical database situation
> 
> It seems to happen about a week apart right after a new log.00000x file
> appears in /var/lib/imap/db/
> 
> To recover, I have to stop cyrus, remove all files: /var/lib/imap/db/*
> then run:  
> 
>   su - cyrus -c "/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb -r"
> 
> and restart the cyrus service.  
> If I don't remove the db files, the above command aborts also.
> 
> I'm running SuSE 9.1 and it's RPM's for Cyrus (everything up to date)
> cyrus-imapd-2.2.3-79.   Any clues?  This is getting really annoying!
> 
>  - BS
> 
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Phillip Hofmeister