[Dovecot] Dovecot "assertion failed" errors

[Christian Friedli]

Dear all,

We are running Dovecot (on debian etch, Version 1.0.rc15-2) on 4  
Loadbalanced servers using a NFS share for the homedirs. The  
loadbalancer is using persistant connections (timeout 30min).

Lately, IMAP Users (mostly using Thunderbird) reported the following  
errors:

1. When trying to mark messages as read, nothing happened, message  
was still displayed as unread.
2. When moving a Directory the client loads for a long time and then  
hangs. Same was reported to happened when a user tried to open a mail.

When checking the logs at the time users reported those errors we  
could always find one fo the following "assertion failed" errors:


file mail-index-sync-update.c: line 730  
(mail_index_sync_update_index): assertion failed: (view- 
 >hdr.messages_count == map->hdr.messages_count)

file mail-index.c: line 415 (mail_index_map_parse_keywords):  
assertion failed: (ext->hdr_offset < map->hdr.header_size)

file mail-index.c: line 909 (mail_index_sync_from_transactions):  
assertion failed: (prev_seq <= max_seq && (prev_seq != max_seq ||  
prev_offset <= max_offset))

file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 158  
(mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq !=  
max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset)

file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 229  
(mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (view->cur_offset  
<= view->cur->sync_offset)
file message-body-search.c: line 393 (message_body_search_ctx):  
assertion failed: (input->v_offset <= part->physical_pos)



I wonder if anyone has experienced similar problems and if there is a  
solution to this strange behaviour.




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