PLEASE HELP - cyrusdb errors after power failure

[Simon Matter]

> We recently had a power failure during a storm and the server required
> an fsck before it would mount up the file systems (eventhough I did have
> logging/journaling turned on).  After running 2 fscks it seems clean,
> but there are issue with the cyrus files themselves.  I had a problem
> with the mailboxes.db and the .seen files.  I converted all these to
> "flat" using cvt_cyrusdb and back again to skiplist (I removed the
> originals before converting back).  However, I'm still getting a lot of
> cyrusdb errors via the imap, pop3 and lmtpunix processes.  I tried
> reconstructing those accounts with the errors but the problem returns in
> a short period of time.  I notice that there is the cyrus.index.NEW and
> cyrus.cache.NEW files in the directory with their mail files.  Running
> reconstruct removed them but they return with the next set of errors.
> So, it seems something else is causing the process to fail and leave the
> .NEW files around.  I also tried removing the .NEW and the cyrus.cache
> and cyrus.index files totally before running a reconstruct, but that
> didn't seem to help.  Any other suggestion on things to look at or try.
>
> We are running cyrus 2.2.5 (I know ... I should upgrade to 2.2.8) on

I'm not sure but you may be hit now by the problem introduced after 2.2.3
which are all solved with 2.2.8. That's why I _strongly_ recommend to
upgrade before you try anything else!

Simon

> Solaris 9.  Everything was working great before the power failure.
> Here's some of the error messages.
>
> Aug 13 10:46:05 cyrus pop3[6427]: [ID 237943 local6.notice] login:
> somewhereat.TCNJ.EDU [192.168.1.1] mary plaintext User logged in
> Aug 13 10:46:26 cyrus lmtpunix[25811]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR:
> error fetching user.mary: cyrusdb error
> Aug 13 10:46:26 cyrus lmtpunix[25811]: [ID 860734 local6.debug]
> verify_user(user.mary) failed: System I/O error
>
> Aug 13 10:47:46 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 277583 local6.notice] login:
> mymail.TCNJ.EDU [192.168.100.1] kirk plaintext User logged in
> Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR:
> error fetching user.kirk: cyrusdb error
> Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 677757 local6.debug] seen_db:
> user kirk opened /var/imap/user/k/kirk.seen
> Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR:
> error fetching user.kirk: cyrusdb error
> Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 736213 local6.debug] open: user
> kirk opened INBOX
> Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR:
> error fetching user.kirk: cyrusdb error
> Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 736213 local6.debug] open: user
> kirk opened INBOX
> Aug 13 10:47:48 cyrus imap[26412]: [ID 335833 local6.error] DBERROR:
> error fetching user.kirk: cyrusdb error
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>   -Shawn Sivy
>    The College of New Jersey
>
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