[Dovecot] dovecot dead but subsys locked

[Kai Wang]

I'm running dovecot 20051026 version on Redhat4. I tried to do a stress 
test. However dovecot dies after I login a few hundred users. I have 
some error messages in my mail log and am not sure if they are related 
to the problem.

[root at lms2 imap1505]# service dovecot status 
dovecot dead but subsys locked

Nov 10 12:58:52 lms2 dovecot: imap1514 [IMAP 7593]: mbox sync: UID 
inserted in the middle of mailbox /fs202/imap1514/mbox (371 > 39)
Nov 10 12:58:52 lms2 dovecot: imap1514 [IMAP 7593]: X-IMAPbase uid-last 
unexpectedly lost in mbox file /fs202/imap1514/mbox
Nov 10 13:02:23 lms2 dovecot: imap2011 [IMAP 7502]: UIDs broken with 
partial sync in mbox file /fs201/imap2011/mbox
Nov 10 13:02:23 lms2 dovecot: imap2011 [IMAP 7502]: mbox sync: UID 
inserted in the middle of mailbox /fs201/imap2011/mbox (33 > 6)
Nov 10 13:04:11 lms2 dovecot: imap2011 [IMAP 7502]: mbox sync: UID 
inserted in the middle of mailbox /fs201/imap2011/mbox (52 > 6)
Nov 10 13:07:38 lms2 dovecot: imap2011 [IMAP 7502]: X-IMAPbase uid-last 
unexpectedly lost in mbox file /fs201/imap2011/mbox
Nov 10 13:08:10 lms2 dovecot: imap0501 [IMAP 7222]: X-IMAPbase uid-last 
unexpectedly lost in mbox file /fs203/imap0501/mbox
Nov 10 13:24:37 lms2 dovecot: imap2009 [IMAP 10253]: X-IMAPbase uid-last 
unexpectedly lost in mbox file /fs205/imap2009/mbox
Nov 10 13:27:48 lms2 dovecot: imap2520 [IMAP 10548]: X-IMAPbase uid-last 
unexpectedly lost in mbox file /fs206/imap2520/mbox

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Kai Wang
System Services
Information Technologies, University of Calgary,
2500 University Drive, N.W.,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
Phone (403) 220-2423, Fax (403) 282-9361