Upgrade/reconstruct failures [REPOST]

[Rob Tanner]

Hi,

I am moving from an old style ESYS (based on a 1.x version of CMU) to 
the latest and greatest Cyrus 2.2.3 on a new box with a single 140GB 
mirrored partition to hold all the mail spools.  On the system I'm 
upgrading from, we had multiple partitions.  Since I am merging the 
mail into a single partition, I wrote a quick and dirty perl script to 
replace the various partition declarations in the mailboxes file with 
the dingle partition, "default".  I took that output and fed it into 
ctl_mboxlist -u to create the new mailboxes database.

However, when I attempt to do a reconstruct -r on a hierarchy of user 
mailboxes, about half the mailboxes fail with the message: "Mailbox has 
an invalid format". I can create a new mailbox and then from a unix 
shell, move all the files into the new box and do a reconstruct on 
that, and it works fine.  Next I did a ctl_mboxlist -d and compared the 
entry for a mailbox that failed to reconstruct with one that succeeded, 
and everything looks the way I expect it to.

Any ideas as to what might be wrong will be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob

Rob Tanner
Linfield College
McMinnville, Oregon

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