Problems with mupdate server.

[Carol Tardif]

João Assad wrote:
> Carol Tardif wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are using Cyrus-2.2.10 in a Murder environnement with two
>> backend +200K mailboxes each. Since our upgrade from Red Hat 7.3
>> to RHEL 3.0 AS we get this error:
>>
>> May 19 13:56:07 mupdate mupdate[26023]: DBERROR: skiplist recovery 
>> /var/imap/mailboxes.db: 45DF894 should be ADD or DELETE
>> May 19 13:56:07 mupdate mupdate[26023]: DBERROR: error updating 
>> database user.test1234.sbb: cyrusdb error
> 
> 
> check if you can find an IOERROR before this DBERROR, could be anywhere 
> from 1 hour before it to days before it.
> It should be an IOERROR complaining that cyrus cant mmap the mailboxes 
> file.

On the mupdate server I don't have any IOERROR. But on backends I have rare
lines like this:

May 18 00:49:53 backend2 imap[30938]: IOERROR: reading message: unexpected end of file

> 
>>
>> Since then our backends seems to have trouble to update their mailbox 
>> list.
>> Because some users can't see some of their mailbox.
>> With a ctl_mboxlist -d -f /var/imap/mailboxes we see the mailbox on 
>> the backend
>> but not on the mupdate with the same command.
>>
>> First we restarted cyrus on both backend to make the backend execute 
>> the command
>> ctl_mboxlist -m. I'm not sure about running the command while cyrus is 
>> running.
>> Then everything is ok. But after some user creation the problem is back.
>>
>> I don't wan't to delete the mupdate mailbox.db because I know it's
>> gonna take aroung 8 hours.
>>
>> Is it normal while cyrus on backends is running that when we do a
>> ctl_mboxlist -mw we get output? Aren't the backend supposed the be 
>> always up
>> to date?
>>
>> First I would like to correct the DBERROR, then I would like to 
>> understand why
>> this append.
> 
> 
> If you dont have a healthy backup of your master mailboxdb, you will 
> have to stop cyrus master, delete the mailboxes file, start cyrus master 
> and run ctl_mboxlist -m on the backends to resync everything.
> 
> I belive you are having the same problem I had some time ago, 
> Fedora/RHEL mmap seems to be broken somehow. I have a fix you can use, 
> but only if you are really having the IOERROR I asked for you to check.

One thing I would like to know is instead of synchronising everything can I:

	1- delete mailboxe.db on mupdate.

	2- do "ctl_mboxlist -d -f /var/imap/mailboxes.db > mailbox_backend1.txt"
           on both backends

	3- Then on the mupdate import mailbox via:
	  ctl_mboxlist -u -f /var/imap/mailboxes.db < mailbox_backend1.txt
	  ctl_mboxlist -u -f /var/imap/mailboxes.db < mailbox_backend2.txt

Is this gonna work? Or I am forced to have a big downtime waiting for "ctl_mboxlist -m"
on both backends.


One more thing on my frontends I have lines like this:

May 19 15:30:41 frontend3 imap[11454]: kick_mupdate: can't connect to target: Connection refused
May 19 15:30:41 frontend3 mupdate[1503]: accepted connection
May 19 15:31:19 frontend3 imaps[11783]: kick_mupdate: can't connect to target: Connection refused


Thanks!

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Carol Tardif
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