Cyrus failure after full disk

[Tom Plancon]

Andy,

That took care of it! Thanks much!

Thomas E. Plancon
CAD/IS Manager

B K A Architects, Inc.
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Brockton, MA 02302

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On 10/18/2012 4:12 PM, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Tom Plancon wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm running a mail server with cyrus imap and postfix. I've had a bit 
>> of a disaster where a runaway process, not related to email, filled 
>> my root directory. I've take care of that and got most of the space 
>> back but now I'm not receiving email and maillog is reporting this:
>>
>> Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: DBERROR db4: Commonly caused 
>> by moving a database from one database environment
>> Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: DBERROR db4: to another 
>> without clearing the database LSNs, or by removing all of
>> Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: DBERROR db4: the log files 
>> from a database environment
>> Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: DBERROR db4: 
>> /var/lib/imap/deliver.db: unexpected file type or format
>> Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: DBERROR: opening 
>> /var/lib/imap/deliver.db: Invalid argument
>> Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: DBERROR: opening 
>> /var/lib/imap/deliver.db: cyrusdb error
>> Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican lmtpunix[32764]: FATAL: lmtpd: unable to init 
>> duplicate delivery database
>> Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican master[3213]: process 32764 exited, status 75
>> Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican master[3213]: service lmtpunix pid 32764 in 
>> READY state: terminated abnormally
>> Oct 18 14:55:53 pelican master[32765]: about to exec 
>> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/lmtpd
>>
>> I've had to reconstruct mail boxes before but nothing like this! Any 
>> idea how to repair this mess? I'm running CentOS 6.
>
> 1. Stop Cyrus
> 2. Delete /var/lib/imap/deliver.db
> 3. Delete the contents of /var/lib/imap/db/
> 4. Start Cyrus
>
> deliver.db contains (mainly) transient data about messages.  If you 
> delete it, you may get a repeated message from anyone using a vacation 
> responder, but otherwise there are no negative consequences.
>
>     Andy

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