sync_server crashing..

[David R Bosso]

--On Monday, May 19, 2008 8:07 AM +1000 Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm> 
wrote:

>
> On Sun, 18 May 2008 21:44:45 +0000 (GMT), "Andy Fiddaman"
> <cyrus at fiddaman.net> said:
>> On Sun, 18 May 2008, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>>
>> ; You have a corrupted cache file.  Various things could have caused
>> this,
>> ; it isn´t easy to know what it was.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I can't find the corrupted mailbox so I've run reconstruct on everything,
>> rsyncd the master to replica again and I'll see if the problem recurs
>> (you
>> can tell it isn't a massive mailstore!)
>>
>> I tried to find the mailbox with the problem by writing a quick program
>> to
>> scan through each cache file and it didn't detect any errors. I also ran
>> mbexamine on every mailbox with no problems so I don't know where the
>> corruption, if any, was.
>>
>> Keeping my fingers crossed anyway,
>
> Hmm.. by corrupted cache file it could actually be the cache base pointers
> from the cyrus.index that are corrupted.  One cause was delayed expunge
> and reconstruct, but David Carter wrote some patches which got into 2.3.12
> to fix that, so new reconstructs will be fine.
>

FWIW, ipurge is corrupting cache files for me.  I'll hopefully have some 
time to track it down soon unless someone has already looked at it.

-David