Desperate

[Jules Agee]

Seems to me I remember there's a script somewhere in the info-cyrus list 
archives that would walk the imap spool dirs and create a flat-text 
mailbox DB that could be imported using cvt-cyrusdb if your current 
mailboxes DB is completely hosed.

-Jules

Colin Bruce wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> We have been running cyrus for roughly 8 hours in a production environment and it
> has failed. It will not start at all. It just sits their doing nothing. The following
> errors are in the log file although these are follow by hundreds of lines similar
> to this.
> 
> It is the latest stable version of cyrus that we are trying to run.
> 
> Apr  6 13:02:37 imap2 ctl_cyrusdb[2264]: archiving log file: /usr/local/packages/cyrus/var/db/log.0000000001
> Apr  6 13:02:37 imap2 ctl_cyrusdb[2264]: archiving database file: /usr/local/packages/cyrus/var/mailboxes.db
> Apr  6 13:02:37 imap2 ctl_cyrusdb[2264]: archiving log file: /usr/local/packages/cyrus/var/db/log.0000000001
> Apr  6 13:02:37 imap2 ctl_cyrusdb[2264]: done checkpointing cyrus databases
> Apr  6 13:02:37 imap2 master[2256]: process 2264 exited, status 0
> Apr  6 13:03:23 imap2 imap[642]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> Apr  6 13:03:23 imap2 imap[642]: DBERROR: critical database situation
> Apr  6 13:03:56 imap2 imap[2255]: unable to tell master 1: Broken pipe
> Apr  6 13:03:56 imap2 imap[2255]: unable to tell master 2: Broken pipe
> 
> 
> We have run recovery as instructed but that does nothing.
> 
> Does anyone know how to fix this? If not does anyone know how difficult it would
> be to to convert back to UW imap. It seems to be much more stable than cyrus.
> 
> As a matter of interest how are we supposed to stop cyrus if the machine it is
> running on is being shutdown. I can't find any mention of how to do that in the
> documentation.
> 
> Best wishes.....
> Colin
> 
> 
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Jules Agee
System Administrator
Pacific Coast Feather Co.
julesa at pcf.com      x284

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