unexpunge segfaults with -l on some mailboxes
Bron Gondwana
brong at fastmail.fm
Tue Mar 24 01:34:28 EDT 2009
https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=3145
(just copied and pasted what's below)
And I've assigned it to myself so I don't forget to look at it!
(this may wind up depending on all my other cache work, because
I don't want to create too many conflicts, and besides - it's much
nicer to work in the refactored APIs)
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:08 -0700, "David R Bosso" <dbosso+lists.cyrus at lsit.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> --On March 13, 2009 10:18:53 AM -0300 Patrick Boutilier
> <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >> This will be real easy to test though. I will just run ipurge on a
> >> subfolder of my mailbox and see if it corrupts it. :-)
>
> FWIW we see the same corruption here with ipurge. We use ipurge to clean
> out old messages from a spam box for each user. We've worked around it
> currently by reconstructing the box after the ipurge which adds a lot of
> work to our nightly maintenance.
>
> I'd love to see a fix for this.
>
> -David
>
> > I can duplicate the corruption by following steps similar to this report:
> >
> > http://archives.devshed.com/forums/networking-100/cyr-expire-sigsegv-2146
> > 878.html
> >
> >
> > Current directory here is /var/imap/metadata/G/user/boutilpj/Testmail
> >
> >
> > Clean mailbox:
> >
> >
> > [cyrus at student2 Testmail]$ ll
> > total 60
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 49612 Mar 13 10:03 cyrus.cache
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 189 Mar 13 10:03 cyrus.header
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 3792 Mar 13 10:03 cyrus.index
> >
> >
> > Quick way to show number of messages in the folder:
> >
> >
> >
> > [cyrus at student2 Testmail]$ cat cyrus.cache |grep -a Prec|wc -l
> > 42
> >
> >
> > Delete 11 messages through IMAP client:
> >
> > [cyrus at student2 Testmail]$ ll
> > total 64
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 49612 Mar 13 10:03 cyrus.cache
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 1064 Mar 13 10:05 cyrus.expunge
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 189 Mar 13 10:03 cyrus.header
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 2824 Mar 13 10:05 cyrus.index
> >
> >
> > Run ipurge with a number high enough not to delete anything. I purge
> > only sees 31 messages and removes them from cyrus.cache:
> >
> >
> > [cyrus at student2 Testmail]$ /usr/local/cyrus/bin/ipurge -f -d 2333
> > user.boutilpj.Testmail
> > Working on user.boutilpj.Testmail...
> > total messages 31
> > total bytes 539400
> > Deleted messages 0
> > Deleted bytes 0
> > Remaining messages 31
> > Remaining bytes 539400
> >
> > [cyrus at student2 Testmail]$ ll
> > total 48
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 36652 Mar 13 10:08 cyrus.cache
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 1064 Mar 13 10:05 cyrus.expunge
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 189 Mar 13 10:03 cyrus.header
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 2824 Mar 13 10:08 cyrus.index
> >
> > [cyrus at student2 Testmail]$ cat cyrus.cache |grep -a Prec|wc -l
> > 31
> >
> >
> > Run cyr_expire and corruption occurs:
> >
> > [cyrus at student2 Testmail]$ /usr/local/cyrus/bin/cyr_expire -E 333 -X 7 -p
> > user.boutilpj.Testmail -v
> > Expunging deleted messages in mailboxes older than 7 days
> >
> > Expunged 0 out of 33 messages from 1 mailboxes
> > [cyrus at student2 Testmail]$ ll
> > total 96
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 36652 Mar 13 10:08 cyrus.cache
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 37852 Mar 13 10:15 cyrus.cache.NEW
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 1064 Mar 13 10:05 cyrus.expunge
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 272 Mar 13 10:15 cyrus.expunge.NEW
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 189 Mar 13 10:03 cyrus.header
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 2824 Mar 13 10:08 cyrus.index
> > -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 2824 Mar 13 10:15 cyrus.index.NEW
> >
> >
> > Mar 13 10:15:40 student2 cyr_expire[8725]: IOERROR: reading cache record
> > for user.boutilpj.Testmail: item 1 has bogus offset 576450680 of 36652
> > for 2/11; mailbox needs a reconstruct
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>> Bron.
> >>
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