[KLUG Members] Cyrus IMAP problems!

[Bruce Smith]

> A quick google search returns this page:
> 
> http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=28915

Thanks!  One take on that thread is the problem doesn't exist in 2.1.x,
but exists in 2.2.3.

What versions of Cyrus are other users on this list running?

I wonder if it'd be worth upgrading from 2.2.3 to 2.2.6?

Or is it possible to downgrade a 2.2.6 system to 2.1.16?
(with the same databases and everything)

 - BS


> 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