fatal error: failed to mmap new message file

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Sun Nov 27 12:37:59 EST 2011


On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 12:14 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> I updated one of my production boxes to Cyrus IMAPd 2.4.12 [using
> Simon's excellent packages]
> On my test box / replica I was able to reconstruct all the mailboxes
> But [of course] on the production box I have a few mailboxes [important
> ones, of course] that fail a reconstruc
> $ /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -r user.steve
> fatal error: failed to mmap new message file
> $ /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -r user.barnosky
> fatal error: failed to mmap new message file
> Reconstructing other mailboxes is working.  Hints / Tips?  reconstruct
> doesn't seem top have a verbose / debug switch.

In the log file I see -

Nov 27 12:36:23 sardine reconstruct[9524]: seen_db: user barnosky
opened /var/lib/imap/user/b/barnosky.seen
Nov 27 12:36:23 sardine reconstruct[9524]: IOERROR: mapping new message
file: No such device



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