murder problems (mupdate getting lost between frontends and mupdate master)

[Rob Siemborski]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Sergio Devojno Bruder wrote:

> Our murder started to act a little strange some days ago:
>
> Apr 15 13:17:43 frontend1 mupdate[21845]: successful mupdate connection to master
> Apr 15 13:17:43 frontend1 mupdate[21845]: unready for connections
> Apr 15 13:17:43 frontend1 mupdate[21845]: synchronizing mailbox list with master mupdate server
> Apr 15 13:17:58 frontend1 mupdate[21845]: retrying connection to mupdate server in 22 seconds
> Apr 15 13:18:20 frontend1 mupdate[21845]: successful mupdate connection to master
> Apr 15 13:18:20 frontend1 mupdate[21845]: unready for connections
> Apr 15 13:18:20 frontend1 mupdate[21845]: synchronizing mailbox list with master mupdate server
> Apr 15 13:18:43 frontend1 mupdate[21845]: retrying connection to mupdate server in 27 seconds
> Apr 15 13:19:10 frontend1 mupdate[21845]: successful mupdate connection to master
> Apr 15 13:19:10 frontend1 mupdate[21845]: unready for connections
> Apr 15 13:19:10 frontend1 mupdate[21845]: synchronizing mailbox list with master mupdate server
> ....
>
> and so on. the mupdate slave in frontends is looping in connecting, syncing, loose connection, connect, sync, loose, and so on.
>
> Someone already saw this pattern? we are using cyrus 2.2.3 with skiplist mailboxes.db.

This generally indicates there is some authentication problem or similar
going on (or some other problem on the mupdate master).

Do you have an output trace?

-Rob

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