[Dovecot] assertion failed in mail-index.c

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jan 4 17:28:15 EET 2012


On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 16:19 +0100, Attila Nagy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have this:
> Jan 04 15:55:21 pop3(jfm47): Panic: file mail-index.c: line 257 
> (mail_index_keyword_lookup_or_create): assertion failed: (*keyword != '\0')
> Jan 04 15:55:21 master: Error: service(pop3): child 3391 killed with 
> signal 6 (core not dumped - set service pop3 { drop_priv_before_exec=yes })
> I don't know why this happened, but wouldn't be the "self healing" (seen 
> in the wiki I think :) kick in here?
> I mean it's even better to completely remove the index than dying and 
> make the mailbox inaccessible.

See if http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/raw-rev/5ef791398c8c helps. If
not, I'd need a gdb backtrace to find out what is causing it:
http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html




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