[Dovecot] 1.0rc8: another problem? Possibly 64-bit index?

[David Lee]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 15:58 +0100, David Lee wrote:
> >    [...]: IMAP([...]): file ../../../src/lib-index/mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size)
> >    [...]: child 4365 (imap) killed with signal 6
>
> Yep, this is a problem with dovecot.index.cache file created with 32bit
> machine not working in 64bit machine. It should automatically detect
> this and delete it, but for some reason it doesn't seem to work always.
> You could do the exact same thing manually anyway by deleting them.

OK.  Thanks.  (And to Chris Wakelin for similar information.)

Does that mean that a set of front-end machines, all NFS-mounting from a
common area, need (pragmatically) to be all 32-bit or all 64-bit?  (Is
this documented?)

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