DBERRORS with unified-imap

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Tue Feb 17 13:01:46 EST 2004


Prentice Bisbal wrote:

> I'm using the unified imap tree (with some assistance from Ken 
> Murchison) to have 3 servers use the same filesystem on a SAN with GPFS.
> 
> When I start cyrus on either the master or the slaves, I get the errors 
> shown below. I think I just need to specify the database format(s) in my 
> imapd.conf file.
> 
> My questions are
> 
> (1) What DB file format is best for my configuration
> 
> (2) Why didn't I get these errors until I configured MUPDATE. Does 
> mupdate expect Berkeley DB files?
> 
> (3) Can I fix this just by using cvt_cyrusdb?

I don't think this is your problem.  See below.

> 
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 imap[7097]: DBERROR db4: mmap: Invalid argument
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 imaps[7098]: DBERROR db4: mmap: Invalid argument
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 pop3[7099]: DBERROR db4: mmap: Invalid argument
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 pop3s[7100]: DBERROR db4: mmap: Invalid argument
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 mupdate[7101]: DBERROR db4: mmap: Invalid 
> argument
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 imap[7097]: DBERROR: dbenv->open 
> '/gpfstest/cyrus/lib
> /imap/db' failed: Invalid argument
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 imaps[7098]: DBERROR: dbenv->open 
> '/gpfstest/cyrus/li
> b/imap/db' failed: Invalid argument
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 pop3[7099]: DBERROR: dbenv->open 
> '/gpfstest/cyrus/lib
> /imap/db' failed: Invalid argument
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 pop3s[7100]: DBERROR: dbenv->open 
> '/gpfstest/cyrus/li
> b/imap/db' failed: Invalid argument
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 mupdate[7101]: DBERROR: dbenv->open 
> '/gpfstest/cyrus/
> lib/imap/db' failed: Invalid argument
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 imap[7097]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 imaps[7098]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 pop3[7099]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 pop3s[7100]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 mupdate[7101]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 imap[7097]: executed
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 imaps[7098]: executed
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 pop3[7099]: executed
> Feb 17 11:22:27 pdb-mail-2 master[5355]: exiting on SIGTERM/SIGINT

It looks to me like you're sharing the BDB environment directory 
(/gpfstest/cyrus/lib/imap/db).  You definitely do not want to do this, 
each machine should have its own local BDB environment directory.

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