Big problem with Cyrus

[Simon Matter]

> I have been running Cyrus with Exim on Debian for years now without any
> problems.
>
> The past few days though, I've been experiencing this:
>
> Once or twice a day, a process called ctl_deliver appears when I type
> "top", it consumes 50% of CPU time and doesn't stop running (I need to
> kill it to stop).
>
> This process quickly fills in my hard disk's free space by appending to
> /var/log/mail.log and /var/log/syslog lines like the following, at a
> rate of 1MB per minute:
>
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: starting txn
> 2148261614
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: aborting txn
> 2148261614
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: DBERROR: mydelete: error
> deleting 6f65b$ff9: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: starting txn
> 2148261615
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: aborting txn
> 2148261615
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: DBERROR: mydelete: error
> deleting 6f65b$ff9: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: starting txn
> 2148261616
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: aborting txn
> 2148261616
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: DBERROR: mydelete: error
> deleting 6f65b$ff9: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: starting txn
> 2148261617
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: aborting txn
> 2148261617
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: DBERROR: mydelete: error
> deleting 6f65b$ff9: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: starting txn
> 2148261618
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: aborting txn
> 2148261618
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: DBERROR: mydelete: error
> deleting 6f65b$ff9: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: starting txn
> 2148261619
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: aborting txn
> 2148261619
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: DBERROR: mydelete: error
> deleting 6f65b$ff9: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: starting txn
> 2148261620
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: aborting txn
> 2148261620
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: DBERROR: mydelete: error
> deleting 6f65b$ff9: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: starting txn
> 2148261621
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: aborting txn
> 2148261621
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: DBERROR: mydelete: error
> deleting 6f65b$ff9: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: starting txn
> 2148261622
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: mydelete: aborting txn
> 2148261622
> Oct 28 04:27:58 h1 cyrus/ctl_deliver[22550]: DBERROR: mydelete: error
> deleting 6f65b$ff9: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
>
> And then everything stops working (because the HD is full), until I wake
> up and delete the log files and kill the process.
>
> Running "ps" shows that ctl_deliver is running with the parameter "-E 3".
>
> What could be the problem here?
>
> How do I solve it?

I think you deliver.db is corrupt. And whenever you HD runs full, you have
a good chance to corrupt the cyrus db's again.
If it's only deliver.db, you could simply stop cyrus, remove deliver.db,
and start cyrus.
Check the list archives to learn why you possibly can remove devlier db
without any problems.

Regards,
Simon

>
> Thx,
>
> - Karjala
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