What causes DBERROR db4: PANIC: Invalid argument?

[Rosenbaum, Larry M.]

Yesterday our Cyrus server stopped responding and I saw the following
messages in the log file:

 

Dec  7 18:13:55 email imaps[9684]: [ID 866726 local6.warning] DBERROR
db4: PANIC: Invalid argument

Dec  7 18:13:55 email imaps[9684]: [ID 864961 local6.crit] DBERROR:
critical database situation

Dec  7 18:13:55 email master[248]: [ID 684980 local6.warning] service
imaps pid 9684 in READY state: term

inated abnormally

Dec  7 18:13:55 email imaps[9682]: [ID 866726 local6.warning] DBERROR
db4: PANIC: fatal region error dete

cted; run recovery

 

The last 3 lines (or variations of them) were repeated over and over.  I
was able to fix the server by shutting down Cyrus, running "ctl_cyrusdb
-r", and restarting Cyrus.

 

1)       What caused the PANIC: Invalid argument?  Is it a Cyrus bug?

 

2)       If the recovery had failed, I would have had to restore
mailboxes.db from a backup.  We have text backups of the mailbox db
created by ctl_mboxlist.  What is the proper procedure for restoring it?
We would want to get rid of the corrupt data, which would involve
deleting mailboxes.db, but are there other files that should also be
deleted?

 

Thanks, Larry

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