Desperate

[Rob Siemborski]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Colin Bruce wrote:

> 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.

Are you using the skiplist backend for the mailbox list?

> 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.

Kill the master process.

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Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456
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