Problem w/ 2.2.4 and unixhierarchysep: yes

[Rob Siemborski]

There were substantial changes in the handling of quotas in 2.2.4. 
However, we're unable to replicate your problem.

Can you generate a GDB backtrace from a core dump to show where the 
segfault is occuring?

On Fri, 21 May 2004, AJ wrote:

> This problem does not appear in 2.2.3, I just wiped my entire 2.2.4 install 
> and installed 2.2.3 and no issues.  Ideas?
>
> AJ
>
> AJ wrote:
>
>> The pieces begin to come together here.. hopefully someone else benefits 
>> from this post.  I have managed to track the problem down to
>> not just accounts with a dot in the mailbox name.
>> This problem is occuring on mailboxes with quotas only.
>> Mailboxes that do not have quotas do not experience this issue.
>> My imapd.conf file is below, does anyone know why this is happening?
>> Once I issue these command in cyradm, this issue happens for the 
>> mary.jones mailbox.
>> 
>> localhost> sq user/mary.smith 8192
>> quota:8192
>> localhost> lq user/mary.smith
>>  STORAGE 1/8192 (0.01220703125%)
>> 
>> Here is imapd.conf:
>> 
>> configdirectory: /var/cyrus/imap
>> partition-default: /var/cyrus/spool/imap
>> admins: cyrus
>> sievedir: /var/cyrus/sieve
>> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
>> hashimapspool: true
>> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
>> altnamespace: yes
>> unixhierarchysep: yes
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> AJ
>> 
>> 
>> AJ wrote:
>> 
>>> Here is an odd update to this...
>>> I tried to create another user with a dot and it works fine.
>>> It seems john.smith causes the error whereas al.jones does not.
>>> Has anyone seen anything like this?
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> AJ
>>> 
>>> AJ wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>>  I have an odd problem.  I am running 2.2.4 fresh install and I have 
>>>> an issue when using a mailbox with a . in the name, such as 
>>>> user/john.smith
>>>> I have the unixhierarchysep: yes line in my imapd.conf.
>>>> Whenever I try to delete a message or move a message to another 
>>>> folder with this mailbox, I generate these errors:
>>>> 
>>>> May 21 18:44:58 linux-beta master[2745]: process 2753 exited, 
>>>> signaled to death by 11
>>>> May 21 18:44:58 linux-beta master[2745]: service imap pid 2753 in 
>>>> BUSY state: terminated abnormally
>>>> 
>>>> And I get errors on the client that said the connection was 
>>>> terminated before the command could complete.
>>>> 
>>>> It looks like the files get "copied" but not moved, so it appears to 
>>>> be a delete issue.
>>>> 
>>>> Users that do not have a . in their mailbox name do not have this 
>>>> problem.  Has anyone seen this?  I have another version of 2.2.4 
>>>> running, and this does not happen there, but that version was 
>>>> upgraded.
>>>> The only other difference is that the version that has this issue is 
>>>> running bdb 4.2.x and the other system is running 4.1.x.
>>>> I just wanted to throw this out there to see if anyone knows anything 
>>>> about this.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> AJ
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