cyrus stopped working -- corrupted files ?

[Tracy Bost]

Exactly. Now that you mention it, its happening everytime I stop the cyrus
server. After deleting the files
under /var/imap  it will work again.

 >I discovered that I could shutdown the cyrus-imapd service, run
> > ctl_cyrusdb, run cvt_cyrusdb_all and then restart cyrus-imapd service to
> > solve the problem.  But it's a pain.  This doesn't happen every time we
> > restart the system.

What exactly are the commands you run for this to get it to work this way ?
I tried ctl_cyrusdb -r and am so lost on the cvt_cyrusdb, i was afraid to
get too adventrous with it.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Bost" <tbost at appraisalforum.com>
To: "Tracy Bost" <tbost at appraisalforum.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:47 PM
Subject: Fw: cyrus stopped working -- corrupted files ?


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fred W. Bacon" <bacon at aerodyne.com>
> To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 6:42 PM
> Subject: Re: cyrus stopped working -- corrupted files ?
>
>
> > On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:09, Tracy Bost wrote:
> >
> > > My question is what exactly would cause this problem or why would the
> > > files under db become corrupt ?
> > > We naturally want to try and prevent this from happening in the
> > > future.
> > >
> > > Thanks !
> > >
> > > Mar 16 08:26:06 AFMAIL1 ctl_cyrusdb[6976]: DBERROR db4: PANIC:
> > > DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
> > > Mar 16 09:04:30 AFMAIL1 ctl_cyrusdb[3660]: DBERROR: dbenv->open
> > > '/var/imap/db' failed: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database
> > > recovery
> > > Mar 16 09:04:30 AFMAIL1 ctl_cyrusdb[3660]: DBERROR: init /var/imap/db:
> > > cyrusdb error
> > > Mar 16 09:04:30 AFMAIL1 ctl_deliver[3659]: DBERROR db4: fatal region
> > > error detected; run recovery
> >
> > I've been seeing this lately myself.  In our case, it appears to happen
> > anytime we shut the system down, such as rebooting after installing a
> > new kernel package.  We're running cyrus 2.1.16 on Fedora Core 1.  In my
> > case, I discovered that I could shutdown the cyrus-imapd service, run
> > ctl_cyrusdb, run cvt_cyrusdb_all and then restart cyrus-imapd service to
> > solve the problem.  But it's a pain.  This doesn't happen every time we
> > restart the system.
> >
> > I should add that this is on an ext3 file system...which may or may not
> > be important.
> >
> > -- 
> > Fred W. Bacon <bacon at aerodyne.com>
> > Aerodyne Research, Inc.
> >
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