breakage issues that I haven't figured out how to resolve

[Simon Matter]

> On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 17:23 +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 11:45 +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
>> >> > Whiteboxlinux 3 (RHEL 3 clone) - Simon's rpm's
>> >
>> >> >
>> >> > So my questions...
>> >> >
>> >> > 1. Do I have to rpmbuild --rebuild cyrus-imapd source rpm's against
>> >> this
>> >> > newer version of db4 for it to work? Seems that it shouldn't have
>> >> broken
>> >> > cyrus-imapd
>> >>
>> >> If the dp update is just a bug fix update, with same BDB version,
>> >> everything should work without modifying cyrus-imapd at all. So what
>> >> exactly went wrong?
>> > ----
>> > I cleared out the maillogs which grew massive very quickly but it was
>> > something like Unable to operate in PRIVATE ENVIRONMENT - a bdb error.
>> >
>> > I would have thought that the 4.1.25-8 and the 4.1.25-8.1 wouldn't
>> have
>> > broken things but it did. I did compile it on the former. I would
>> > presume that until I 'exclude' db4 from updating, a yum update command
>> > would break it all over again.
>> > ----
>> >> I know that there is a problem in the rpm which affects poeople who
>> >> change
>> >> database configuration in /etc/imapd.conf and the rpm should convert
>> >> databases on the fly but doesn't always do it correctly. The next
>> >> release
>> >> will fix to bugs. However, I don't think that's what you did, right?
>> > ----
>> > no - kept imap.conf throughout. I have a fairly well defined imap.conf
>> > now
>>
>> What do you mean with "fairly well defined imap.conf" ?
>> The cyrus-imapd rpms out of the box use skiplist for mbox, seen and
>> annotation, and flat for subs, and berkeley for duplicate and tls. Did
>> you
>> change this? How do the following files look:
>> /usr/share/cyrus-imapd/rpm/db.cfg
>> /var/lib/imap/rpm/db.cfg.cache
>> /etc/imapd.conf
> ----
>
> see bottom
>
> ----
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> > ----
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > 2. I ended up having to 'cm' createmailbox for the users (mainly
>> me)
>> >> and
>> >> > did 'reconstruct -rf user.craig' which got back all but nested
>> >> > subfolders. Meaning...
>> >> > /var/spool/imap/c/user/craig/SPAMBOX #is fine
>> >> > /var/spool/imap/c/user/craig/Saved/Shell Scripts #didn't get added
>> to
>> >> > mailboxlist. Nothing in the 'Saved' subdirectory or 'logs'
>> >> subdirectory
>> >> > was re-constructed. What's the trick?
>> >>
>> >> Are you sure your databases are working correct? Maybe you want to
>> look
>> >> at
>> >> the logs first. Healing a broken BDB environment has been discussed
>> on
>> >> this list recently and I'm no expert in BDB.
>> > ----
>> > the only error my standard /var/log/maillog reports is user.root not
>> > having a default sieve script - hardly something that concerns me. I
>> can
>> > run.
>> >
>> > su - cyrus -c '/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -rf user.craig' until
>> > doomsday and it will not pick up the 'mail folders'
>> > in /var/spool/imap/c/user/craig/logs - I can't figure this out and
>> none
>> > of the documentation suggests otherwise.
>> > ----
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > 3. I lost all subscriptions (but the seen list was ok) and when I
>> >> choose
>> >> > to 'subscribe' to folders from my mail client, I am told that the
>> IMAP
>> >> > server doesn't support subscriptions... How to fix this?
>> >>
>> >> I have no idea. BTW, if you're also using skiplist, make sure none of
>> >> the
>> >> files is corrupt.
>> > ----
>> > I deleted /var/lib/imap/user/c/craig.sub but still the same problem. I
>> > am told that on my account, the system doesn't support subscriptions.
>> I
>> > can't figure out what else to try.
> ----
> # cat /usr/share/cyrus-imapd/rpm/db.cfg
> CONFIG_DB_DUPLICATE=berkeley
> CONFIG_DB_MBOX=skiplist
> CONFIG_DB_SEEN=skiplist
> CONFIG_DB_SUBS=flat
> CONFIG_DB_TLS=berkeley
> CONFIG_DB_ANNOTATION=skiplist
> CONFIG_DB_SIEVE=2.2.3

Okay, I don't see where a db4 update could be related to you problems.
Only duplicate and tls db are db4, and they can easily be removed without
too much headache.
What does
file /var/lib/imap/*.db
show you?

And, did you try to remove all the logs with something like this (after
doing backups first!)
rm -rf /var/lib/imap/db/* /var/lib/imap/db.backup?

You may also want to have a look at this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160317
It's not directly discussing your problem but may help anyway.

HTH
Simon

>
> # cat /var/lib/imap/rpm/db.cfg.cache
> CONFIG_DB_DUPLICATE=berkeley
> CONFIG_DB_MBOX=skiplist
> CONFIG_DB_SEEN=skiplist
> CONFIG_DB_SUBS=flat
> CONFIG_DB_TLS=berkeley
> CONFIG_DB_ANNOTATION=skiplist
> CONFIG_DB_SIEVE=2.2.3
>
> # cat /etc/imapd.conf
> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> admins: cyrus
> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> hashimapspool: true
> lmtp_downcase_rcpt: 1
>
> createonpost: 1
> autocreateinboxfolders: Sent Items|SPAMBOX|VIRUSBOX|Drafts|Deleted Items
> autosubscribeinboxfolders: Sent Items|SPAMBOX|VIRUSBOX|Drafts|Deleted
> Items
> autosubscribesharedfolders: public
> autocreatequota: 512000
> autocreate_sieve_script: /etc/default_sieve_script
> autocreate_sieve_compiledscript: /etc/default_sieve_script.bc
> generate_compiled_sieve_script: 1
> allowallsubscribe: 1
> anysievefolder: 1
>
> maxmessagesize: 0
> quota_warn: 90
>
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
>
> tls_cert_file: /etc/ssl/cyrus-global.pem
> tls_key_file: /etc/ssl/cyrus-global.pem
> tls_ca_file: /etc/ssl/ca.cert
>
> ldap_base: dc=azapple,dc=com
> ldap_filter: (uid=%u)
> ldap_group_base: ou=Groups,dc=azapple,dc=com
> ldap_group_scope: one
>
>


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