constant cyrus failures with DBERROR db4

[Paul Raines]

Well, I tried this and aborted the conversion.  The cvt_cyrusdb ran for 10 
minutes by which time my 10MB deliver.db file had become a > 1GB 
deliver.db.skiplist file.

So I simply moved the current deliver.db and tls_sessions.db aside,
configured imapd.conf for skiplist on them, and then started up.  Seems
to working okay so far.


On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Simon Matter wrote:

>> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Simon Matter wrote:
>>>
>>> One special note:
>>> The cyrus-imapd package you are using (the package from RHEL4 is based
>>> on
>>> my Invoca package) tries to convert the db files automatically on
>>> startup.
>>> However, the version you have has a bug which prevents it from
>>> converting
>>> all db files correctly. So you may want to convert the existing db files
>>> with cvt_cyrusdb by hand to avoid problems - or update your package to
>>> my
>>> last one from http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/cyrus-imapd/ which has
>>> several other bugs fixed.
>>
>> Can you tell me exactly what files to convert and how to do it by hand?
>
> /var/lib/imap/tls_sessions.db
> /var/lib/imap/deliver.db
>
>>
>> I assume I shutdown cyrus, maybe delete those log files if they still
>> exist, then run cvt_cyrusdb (how?) on some files (which?), then
>> restart cyrus?
>
> Yes, convert the files like this:
>
> su - cyrus -c "/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cvt_cyrusdb /var/lib/imap/deliver.db
> berkeley /var/lib/imap/deliver.db.skiplist skiplist"
> mv /var/lib/imap/deliver.db /var/lib/imap/deliver.db.berkeley
> mv /var/lib/imap/deliver.db.skiplist /var/lib/imap/deliver.db
>
> the same for tls_sessions.db.
> Then, edit /etc/imapd.conf and start cyrus-imapd.
>
> Anyway, if something fails, deliver.db and tls_sessions.db are not really
> very important so you could even remove those db files and let cyrus-imapd
> start with new empty ones.
>
> Simon
>
>
>
>

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