[KLUG Members] Cyrus IMAP problems!

[Adam Tauno WIlliams]

> 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 pop3[27748]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> Jul 26 12:58:02 mail pop3[27748]: DBERROR: critical database situation

Gr.  Thats a sleepycat/berkley-db error.  I've heard of these but never
seen one.

> It seems to happen about a week apart right after a new log.00000x file
> appears in /var/lib/imap/db/

Fascinating!

> 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!

I can check my notes, but I've never seen a DBERROR up-close and
personal.  My Cyrus box is still RH9.