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

[Simon Matter]

> 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

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.
>
> Thanks
>
> Craig
>
>


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