[Dovecot] Error: dict client sent broken reply

[Gedalya]

On 08/05/2013 01:54 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 20.5.2013, at 0.33, Chris Richards <gizmo at giz-works.com> wrote:
>
>> doveadm(someuseraccount at somedomain): Error: dict client
>> (/var/run/dovecot/dict) sent broken reply
>> doveadm(someuseraccount at somedomain): Error: Dictionary iteration failed
>> doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users
> ..
>> dovecot: dict: Error: dict client: COMMIT: Can't commit while iterating
> ..
>> # 2.1.12: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> There are a few fixes in lib-dict since v2.1.12. Also v2.2 has one more fix, which I just added to v2.1 hg. Would be helpful to know if one of those fixes the problem before I spend a lot of time testing this..
>

In my case it's debian's 2.1.7, and I've since deleted the entire 
expires table which made the error go away. I'm just letting it slowly 
build up again, so far it's fine. So it's going to be hard for me to 
reproduce the problem.