Problems with mupdate server.

[João Assad]

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.

>
> 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.

>
> Thanks for any answers or pointers.
>

Regards,

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