error fetching txn cyrusdb error

Simon Matter simon.matter at invoca.ch
Wed Mar 23 15:51:27 EDT 2011


> Anyone?

I don't know where to start...

>
> On 11-03-21 11:22 PM, brian wrote:
>> Using 2.2.13
>>
>> I'm seeing a lot of the following in my mail log:
>>
>> cyrus/imap[50924]: IOERROR: locking
>> /var/lib/cyrus/domain/q/DOMAIN.org/user/a/admin.seen: Interrupted system
>> call
>> cyrus/imap[50924]: DBERROR: error fetching txn cyrusdb error
>> cyrus/imap[50924]: Fatal error: Internal error: assertion failed:
>> seen_db.c: 275: seendb&&  seendb->uniqueid

Looks like your deliverdb or its BDB environment have an issue.

>>
>> [...]
>>
>> cyrus/lmtpunix[11672]: IOERROR: locking header for
>> DOMAIN.org!user.admin: Interrupted system call
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> cyrus/master[13921]: can't fork process to run event checkpoint

Doesn't sound good.

>> postfix/smtpd[5224]: fatal: file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter
>> default_privs: unknown user name value: nobody

This one is not Cyrus related, but still interesting, you do have a user
'nobody', do you? What kind of system is this, OS version and such?

>> cyrus/deliver[4091]: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed: No such
>> file or directory
>> cyrus/deliver[11366]: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed: No
>> such file or directory
>> cyrus/deliver[23725]: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed: No
>> such file or directory
>> cyrus/deliver[8044]: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed: No such
>> file or directory
>> cyrus/deliver[13884]: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed: No
>> such file or directory
>> cyrus/deliver[16162]: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed: No
>> such file or directory
>> cyrus/deliver[28191]: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed: No
>> such file or directory

Why is that?

>>
>> [...]
>>
>> cyrus/imap[28407]: IOERROR: locking
>> /var/lib/cyrus/domain/a/DOMAIN.com/user/a/andrew.seen: Interrupted
>> system call
>> cyrus/imap[28407]: DBERROR: error fetching txn cyrusdb error
>> cyrus/master[15510]: process 28407 exited, signaled to death by 6
>> cyrus/lmtpunix[7938]: IOERROR: locking header for DOMAIN.org!user.admin:
>> Interrupted system call
>> cyrus/lmtpunix[30354]: IOERROR: locking header for
>> DOMAIN.org!user.admin: Interrupted system call
>>
>> Some of these appear to be related, although not all. The
>> IOERROR/DBERROR lines suggest to me that I may need to run reconstruct
>> on the mailboxes. Does that seem likely? Filesystem problems?

That's what I guess, but you have to tell us. Is there enough free space
on your filesystems, is something broken.

>>
>> The cyrus/deliver errors are odd. I don't have a directory at:
>> /var/run/cyrus
>>
>> Although I do have:
>>
>> /var/run/cyrus-master.pid
>>
>> In Postfix's master.cf:
>> cyrus-deliver unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
>>     user=cyrus argv=/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/deliver -e -r ${sender} -m
>> ${extension} $recipient
>>
>> Any ideas?

As I said before, something just doesn't look right at all. Did you do
something with the system before those errors showed up the first time?

Simon



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