IOERROR: writing cache file

[Rudy Gevaert]

Bron Gondwana wrote:
> 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?

That's a carat.

> 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.

I have no idea how it happens.  I just saw it today, a couple of times 
from the same user.  She has it on two folders. The user has already 
logged out so I can't attach to that process. :(

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

Hmm.  Do you mean the cyrus.cache file in those folders?  Is a 
reconstruct enough to recreate them or doesn't happen automatically.

Thanks in advance,

Rudy

-- 
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Rudy Gevaert          Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be          tel:+32 9 264 4734
Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office
Groep Systemen                    Systems group
Universiteit Gent                 Ghent University
Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie               www.UGent.be
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --