IOERROR: writing cache file

[Bron Gondwana]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:51:09PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> Does somebody know what could be the source of the following error messages?
> 
> Thu Sep 27 13:24:09 2007 manaslu mail6/imaps/mail6/imaps[27763]: 
> IOERROR: writing cache file for ugent.be!user.heleen^nailis.Labo.Rosina: 
> Bad address
> Thu Sep 27 13:24:26 2007 manaslu mail6/imaps/mail6/imaps[4600]: IOERROR: 
> writing cache file for ugent.be!user.heleen^nailis.Labo.Rosina: Bad address
> Thu Sep 27 13:26:37 2007 manaslu mail6/imaps/mail6/imaps[15730]: 
> IOERROR: writing cache file for 
> ugent.be!user.heleen^nailis.maatjes.Gwenn: Bad address
> Thu Sep 27 13:26:51 2007 manaslu mail6/imaps/mail6/imaps[2402]: IOERROR: 
> writing cache file for ugent.be!user.heleen^nailis.maatjes.Gwenn: Bad 
> address

heleen^nailis ?   Is that a carat or a control character being printed?

Are you able to reproduce reliably?  May be worth trying to grab
an strace/truss of the process and see what syscalls it's making.

Alternatively, you could have filesystem corruption in the meta
directories - have you tried moving them aside and creating new
ones?

Bron.