[Dovecot] Corrupted transaction log

[Paul Warren]

Happy New Year.

Does anyone have any ideas on the problem below?  It seems a fairly
serious bug that Dovecot can't open a Maildir without corrupting its own
transaction log.

Paul

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 06:12:04PM +0000, Paul Warren wrote:
> I've just installed dovecot and am trying to use it to access my Maildir
> folders.  Unfortunately:
> 
> 1 SELECT INBOX
> 1 NO Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information.  [2006-12-22 18:06:11]
> 
> Log says:
> 
> Dec 22 17:55:56 sphinx dovecot: IMAP(pdw): Corrupted transaction log file /home/pdw/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x20, offset=24, size=0)
> Dec 22 17:55:57 sphinx dovecot: IMAP(pdw): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /home/pdw/Maildir/dovecot.index
> Dec 22 17:55:57 sphinx dovecot: IMAP(pdw): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /home/pdw/Maildir/dovecot.index
> 
> Any clues?  Deleting ~/Maildir/dovecot* doesn't seem to help.  I can't
> find any documentation relating to the transaction log, or an
> explanation of why a fresh install of dovecot might choose to create a
> corrupt one.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
>