DBERROR - how do I recover?

[Shelley Waltz]

Blake Hudson wrote:
> You should be able to delete the deliver, annotations, and tls_sessions
> db files along with the files in /var/lib/imap/db and restart without
> any loss of data.
>
> If this does not fix the problem you likely have issue with the
> mailboxes db file. In that case, you will likely have to replace it with
> a file from /var/lib/imap/db.backup1 You will lose any new
> folders/mailboxes created since the backup was created. You can use
> reconstruct -rf to find these though....
>
> --Blake
>
> -------- Original Message  --------

>> I am still in trouble on my production system - help
>>
>> Jun 23 12:57:34 chipmunk lmtpunix[4948]: DBERROR db4: fatal region error
>> detected; run recovery
>> Jun 23 12:57:34 chipmunk lmtpunix[4948]: DBERROR: dbenv->open
>> '/var/lib/imap/db' failed: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database
>> recovery
>> Jun 23 12:57:34 chipmunk lmtpunix[4948]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley
>> Jun 23 12:57:34 chipmunk lmtpunix[4948]: executed
>> Jun 23 12:57:34 chipmunk lmtpunix[4948]: DBERROR db4: environment not
>> yet
>> opened
>> Jun 23 12:57:34 chipmunk lmtpunix[4948]: DBERROR: opening
>> /var/lib/imap/deliver.db: Invalid argument
>> Jun 23 12:57:34 chipmunk lmtpunix[4948]: DBERROR: opening
>> /var/lib/imap/deliver.db: cyrusdb error
>> Jun 23 12:57:34 chipmunk lmtpunix[4948]: FATAL: lmtpd: unable to init
>> duplicate delivery database
>> Jun 23 12:57:34 chipmunk master[1691]: process 4948 exited, status 75
>> Jun 23 12:57:34 chipmunk master[1691]: service lmtpunix pid 4948 in
>> READY
>> state: terminated abnormally
>> Jun 23 12:57:34 chipmunk master[4949]: about to exec
>> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/lmtpd
>>
>> what can i do to recover from this problem - no mail is going through.
>>
>> thanks S
>>
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Thanks for this concise information, I am keeping it on file for next
time(hopefully never).

What I did and what did repair the problem was

db_recover -v -h /var/lib/imap/db