IOERROR: reading message: unexpected end of file (message_copy_strict)

[Ken Murchison]

Your problem is most likely related to using NFS.  NFS has never been 
recommended for Cyrus because is doesn't play nice with mmap() and 
flock(), both of which are critical to the operation of Cyrus.


Ian G Batten wrote:
> Since we moved to 2.2.6 on Solaris 10, with storage coming via NFS,  
> we've been seeing ``IOERROR: reading message: unexpected end of  
> file'' intermittently.  It doesn't seem to cause any harm.  I went  
> through and placed the function name in each occurrence of the  
> message (as a note, non-unique messages in different functions are a  
> bit of a pain) and the error is always arising from message_copy_strict.
> 
> I've seen the problem with Solaris 10 build 58 with 2.2.6 and 2.2.8  
> on an E450 and Solaris 10 09/07 with 2.2.8 and 2.3.9 on a T2000, all  
> with NFS storage from other Suns and from a Pillar.  I've not seen  
> the problem with Solaris 10 09/07 on Intel with 2.3.9, but that's not  
> using NFS.
> 
> Before I do the surgery to establish the file in which the error is  
> occurring (which might not help anyway), is the changelog entry for  
> 2.3.10RC3:
> 
>       * Finally fixed (again?) alignment issues on 64-bit SPARC.
> 
> anything to do with this problem?
> 
> ian
> 
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Kenneth Murchison
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Carnegie Mellon University