Problems with a crashed BDB

[Michael Obster]

Hi,

uff. You are right. I haven't remember that they are saved there. So the
most important thing is present.
I will try to repair the metadata.

Big thanks!

Regards,
Michael

Bron Gondwana schrieb:
> Luckily for you, you haven't lost any actual emails, just meta
> data.  The emails are still on the disk as individual files.
> Do you know which specific DB file is corrupted?
> 
> You can probably nuke deliver.db at start up (we do).  Worst
> case, just move your mailboxes.db somewhere else and run
> reconstruct on every username.  Pretty horrible to have to go
> to that extent.
> 
> Emails should be in /var/spool/imap or equivalent location on
> your setup.  The layout is {letter}/user/{username}.  We keep
> our mail in /var/cyrus/{instance name} so my emails are actually
> in:
> 
> /var/cyrus/imap5/data2/b/user/brong - look for the 
> 'partition-default:' entry in your imapd.conf to find the
> correct path.
> 
> Individual messages are called '{uid}.', so the first message is
> '1.', etc.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bron.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:45:18PM +0200, Michael Obster wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a big problem with my Cyrus and my BDB here. I'm using Cyrus
>> 2.2.12 with BDB 4.2.52.
>>
>> When I'm starting Cyrus, I get this error in my imapd.log:
>> -------
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19525]: setrlimit: Unable to set file
>> descriptors limit to -1: Operation not permitted
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19525]: retrying with 1024 (current max)
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19525]: process started
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19526]: about to exec
>> /opt/cyrus/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19526]: DBERROR db4: Recovery
>> function for LSN 8 7404244 failed on backward pass
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19526]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: Is a
>> directory
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19526]: DBERROR: critical database
>> situation
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19525]: process 19526 exited, status 75
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19525]: ready for work
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19527]: about to exec
>> /opt/cyrus/cyrus/bin/ctl_cyrusdb
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19527]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal
>> region error detected; run recovery
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19527]: DBERROR: critical database
>> situation
>> Aug 30 22:38:44 alpha1 master[19525]: process 19527 exited, status 75
>> --------
>>
>> So I tried a reconstruct -m and a reconstruct -r user/username on a
>> specific mailbox and I'm getting this:
>> --------
>> Aug 30 22:41:08 alpha1 reconstruct[19571]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal
>> region error detected; run recovery
>> Aug 30 22:41:08 alpha1 reconstruct[19571]: DBERROR: critical database
>> situation
>> --------
>>
>> Running "ctl_cyrusdb -r" results in a:
>> --------
>> ug 30 22:41:50 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19582]: DBERROR db4: Recovery function
>> for LSN 8 7404244 failed on backward pass
>> Aug 30 22:41:50 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19582]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: Is a
>> directory
>> Aug 30 22:41:50 alpha1 ctl_cyrusdb[19582]: DBERROR: critical database
>> situation
>> --------
>>
>> Damn BDB, but HOW CAN I GET MY MAILS BACK? I'm at one's wits' end, so
>> any help would be very great because I have some very important mails there!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michael Obster
>>
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