Solved: Re: Help please, cyrus imapd production system down

[Mike Eggleston]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Andrew Morgan might have said:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Mike Eggleston wrote:
> 
> >Problem solution:
> >remove the user's seen file at /var/lib/imap/user/?/$USER.seen
> > no restarting of cyrus required after removing the broken file
> >
> >Environment:
> >Fedora Core 5 (current patches)
> ># rpm -qa | grep cyrus
> >cyrus-imapd-devel-2.3.1-2.8.fc5
> >cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.21-10
> >cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-10
> >cyrus-imapd-utils-2.3.1-2.8.fc5
> >cyrus-sasl-ldap-2.1.21-10
> >cyrus-imapd-2.3.1-2.8.fc5
> >cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.21-10
> 
> There have been quite a few reliability fixes in skiplist handling added 
> over the 2.3 lifecycle.  Upgrading to a current version of Cyrus should 
> help.
> 
> We haven't had corrupted skiplist seen files in quite a while.  I have 
> only recently upgraded from 2.2.13 to 2.3.11, so I can't really say which 
> version of Cyrus fixed the problem for us.
> 
> 	Andy

Are there any problems, compatibility or conversion issues, when upgrading?

Mike