another problem with conversations db

[Michael Menge]

Quoting Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm>:

> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, at 20:00, Michael Menge wrote:
>> Hi Bron
>>
>>
>> Quoting Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm>:
>>
>> > Sorry I haven't been following along with this earlier. Can you post
>> > your imapd.conf and cyrus.conf as well as let her know if you run
>> > anything which directly messes with files on disk.
>>
>> Thanks for looking into it. I have attached the backend and replica
>> configs. There should be nothing messing with the files on disk
>> directly. Some times we need to restore mails from file based
>> backup (bacula) followed by a reconstruct but this was not the
>> case this time.
>
> Do you always rebuild the conversations db after doing the  
> reconstruct? That will be necessary now. We switched to doing all  
> our restores using IMAP append a while back so we're never fiddling  
> the file system under Cyrus.
>
>> >
>> > Also, what operating system is this on and what Cyrus version?
>> >
>>
>> We are running a cyrus 3.0.8 compiled with the following Options
>> (./configure --enable-murder --enable-http --enable-calalarmd
>> --enable-replication --enable-backup --enable-idled
>> --enable-autocreate CFLAGS="-fPIC -g")
>> in a murder configuration on a RHEL 7.5 System. As filesystem we use xfs.
>
> They should be fine. I'll have a read of the config when I'm at a  
> real computer.
>

did you find anything in the config that would explain the problems?

>>
>> > Bron.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, at 04:08, Michael Menge wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I have discovered an other problem with the conversations db:
>> >>
>> >> Thousends of lines with "IOERROR: conversations_audit on load:" and
>> >> "IOERROR: conversations_audit on store:"
>> >> A look at the source code shows that these errors are logged after
>> >> "_sanity_check_counts" is called.
>> >> The log level LOG_ERR and the prefix IOERROR indicate that I have a
>> >> serious problem. Do I?
>> >>
>> >> This problem occurred for accounts where the rebuild of the
>> >> conversations db was successful.
>> >>
>> >> I don't want to rebuild the conversations db every few days.
>> >>
>> >> Any help is appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> Kind regards
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Michael Menge
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  
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>> > --
>> > Bron Gondwana
>> > brong at fastmail.fm
>>
>>
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>> *Attachments:*
>>  * imapd_be.conf
>>  * cyrus_be.conf
>>  * cyrus_re.conf
>>  * imapd_re.conf
>
> --
>  Bron Gondwana
>  brong at fastmail.fm



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