Mystery cyrus/lmtp and cyrus/imap DBERROR log entries

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 03/16/2015 11:57 AM, Andy Dorman wrote:
> Hi, I am relatively new to Cyrus...we have been using it for many years,
> but I have only recently been given the job of administering it.
>
> We are using the Debian Cyrus package, 2.4.17.  Everything as far as
> mail storage and delivery from the user perspective is working great.
>
> However, I have noticed DBERROR log entries have been happening for
> months (possibly longer, our detailed syslogs only go back 6 months).
>
> I am concerned that there might be a problem, but if not then I would
> like to clean up the log entries.
>
> 2015-03-16T08:28:18.024064-05:00 yorick cyrus/lmtp[2219]: DBERROR db5:
> /var/lib/cyrus/db/__db.001: No such file or directory
> 2015-03-16T08:28:18.024159-05:00 yorick cyrus/lmtp[2219]: DBERROR:
> dbenv->open '/var/lib/cyrus/db' failed: No such file or directory
> 2015-03-16T08:28:18.024182-05:00 yorick cyrus/lmtp[2219]: DBERROR:
> init() on berkeley
> 2015-03-16T08:28:18.024211-05:00 yorick cyrus/lmtp[2219]: DBERROR:
> reading /var/lib/cyrus/db/skipstamp, assuming the worst: No such file or
> directory
> 2015-03-16T08:28:18.024234-05:00 yorick cyrus/lmtp[2219]: executed
>
> 2015-03-16T09:15:20.607017-05:00 yorick cyrus/imap[3716]: DBERROR db5:
> /var/lib/cyrus/db/__db.001: No such file or directory
> 2015-03-16T09:15:20.607183-05:00 yorick cyrus/imap[3716]: DBERROR:
> dbenv->open '/var/lib/cyrus/db' failed: No such file or directory
> 2015-03-16T09:15:20.607227-05:00 yorick cyrus/imap[3716]: DBERROR:
> init() on berkeley
> 2015-03-16T09:15:20.607281-05:00 yorick cyrus/imap[3716]: DBERROR:
> reading /var/lib/cyrus/db/skipstamp, assuming the worst: No such file or
> directory
> 2015-03-16T09:15:20.607334-05:00 yorick cyrus/imap[3716]: executed
>
> Based on the 3rd line of each block of errors this looks like a BDB
> (berkeley db) problem...but I checked our imapd.conf and the previous
> admin switched everything to skiplist in July 2010 as shown by the
> snippet below from our imapd.conf.  FWIW, it appears he left one BDB
> setting in place accidentally, but I would think that would not make a
> difference since we no longer use BDB.
>
> ----- snippets from imapd.conf -----
> # Use skiplist everywhere
> annotation_db: skiplist
> ...
> berkeley_cachesize: 1024
> ...
> # Use skiplist everywhere
> annotation_db: skiplist
> ...
> # Set our quota properly
> quota_db: skiplist
> ...
> # Use skiplist everywhere
> statuscache_db: skiplist
>
> # Use skiplist everywhere
> tlscache_db: skiplist
>
> # Use skiplist everywhere
> userdeny_db: skiplist
> ----- end snippets from imapd.conf -----
>
> As far as the /var/lib/cyrus/ directory, there is indeed no db
> sub-directory, but everything else appears to be in order as far as I
> can tell.
>
> drwxr-x--- 12 cyrus mail   4096 Mar 16 09:37 .
> drwxr-xr-x 49 root  root   4096 Oct 20 14:54 ..
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail    144 Mar 16 09:37 annotations.db
> drwx------  2 cyrus mail   4096 Mar 16 09:11 db.backup1
> drwx------  2 cyrus mail   4096 Mar 16 08:41 db.backup2
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail 114220 Mar 16 09:37 deliver.db
> drwx------  9 cyrus mail   4096 Feb 15 01:56 domain
> drwx------ 29 cyrus mail   4096 Apr 27  2011 lock
> drwx------  2 cyrus mail   4096 Jul 12  2010 log
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail   9280 Mar 16 09:37 mailboxes.db
> drwx------  2 cyrus mail   4096 Nov 15  2007 msg
> drwx------  2 cyrus mail   4096 Nov 11 10:59 proc
> drwx------ 28 cyrus mail   4096 Nov 15  2007 quota
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail    608 Mar 16 09:37 quotas.db
> drwxr-x---  2 cyrus mail   4096 Sep 12  2008 socket
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail    144 Mar 16 09:37 statuscache.db
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail    144 Mar 16 09:37 tls_sessions.db
> drwx------ 29 cyrus mail   4096 Sep 22  2009 user
> -rw-------  1 cyrus mail    144 Mar 16 09:37 user_deny.db
>
>
> So, my questions are:
>
> 1. Do we actually have a problem here?  If so, then I can certainly
> create a db sub-directory for BDB to work in, but then I wonder why do
> we need to if we are no longer using BDB?
>
> 2. If we do not have a problem, then what can I change in our
> configuration to let cyrus know it no longer needs to worry with a db
> sub-directory for BDB (assuming this IS a BDB issue of course)?
>
> I have searched the mailing list archives, Googled for info and studied
> the imapd.conf man pages and have not found an answer.  It would be
> appreciated if anyone in this list knows what is going on or can at
> least point me in the right direction.
>
> Thanks,
>


I think you have to compile with --without-bdb to completely get rid of 
BDB. I doubt the Debian packages would be compiled in such a way.


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