[Dovecot] Panic in index-sync.c: line 25 on dovecot-1.2.17

[Leon Meßner]

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 11:45:52PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 7.5.2012, at 23.40, Leon Meßner wrote:
> 
> > with dovecot-1.2.17 (yes i know it's old) i'm getting the folowing error
> > after doing a system upgrade.
> > 
> > May  7 22:04:26 mail dovecot: deliver(elon): Panic: file index-sync.c: line 25 (index_mailbox_set_recent_uid): 
> > 		assertion failed: (seq_range_exists(&ibox->recent_flags, uid))
> 
> This is a bug, and in v2.x the assert has been replaced with a non-fatal error message. Although I haven't recently heard of people reporting this error, so perhaps it has been fully fixed already.
> 
> > After that a new mail does the same dance (perhaps until the next one to
> > this ML arrives). The maildirs are on NFS and in this case only beeing
> > used with my instance of mutt and two other postfix+dovecot servers
> > which are quite idle. Whats the way to debug this ?
> 
> I don't know why it happens in v1.2 and I don't know if there's a way to fix it other than upgrading.
> 

Alright, i'm already planning to upgrade this machine. Seems like i do
have one more good reason.

thanks Timo,
Leon