I am using exim via dovecot_deliver to store messages in Maildir in my $HOME. I am using kmail to retrieve stuff. Unfortunately, something in my data crashes dovecot.
I was using 1.0.rc14 from opensuse, but downloaded and installed 1.0.8 from the site.
Here is the crash:
Dec 5 18:05:09 h743107 dovecot: IMAP(kris): file mail-index-transaction.c: line 629 (mail_index_update_flags_range): assertion failed: (seq1 <= seq2 && seq1 > 0) Dec 5 18:05:09 h743107 dovecot: child 13896 (imap) killed with signal 6 Dec 5 18:05:09 h743107 dovecot: IMAP(kris): Raw backtrace: imap [0x8006cf7d] -> imap [0x8006ce58] -> imap(mail_index_update_flags_range+0x194) [0x8004d034] -> imap(mail_index_sync_begin+0x5c9) [0x8004fb79] -> imap(maildir_sync_index_begin+0x61) [0x80021c71] -> imap [0x8002350a] -> imap(maildir_storage_sync_init+0x56) [0x80023646] -> imap(mailbox_sync_init+0x16) [0x8005d566] -> imap(imap_sync_nonselected+0x28) [0x8001b838] -> imap(_cmd_select_full+0xd7) [0x80012c47] -> imap(cmd_select+0x25) [0x80012e25] -> imap [0x800143ea] -> imap[0x8001446c] -> imap(_client_input+0x7d) [0x80014bcd] ->imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x127) [0x80073987]-> imap(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x80072ac8] -> imap(main+0x518) [0x8001d898] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7e8d02c] -> imap[0x8000f0c1]
I took the liberty to syslog() the seq numbers before the assert and indeed
h743107:/etc/dovecot # grep "imap: seq1" /var/log/messages | head -3 Dec 5 18:30:18 h743107 imap: seq1 1 seq2 1 Dec 5 18:30:18 h743107 imap: seq1 1 seq2 1 Dec 5 18:30:18 h743107 imap: seq1 1 seq2 1 h743107:/etc/dovecot # grep "imap: seq1" /var/log/messages | awk '($9 < $7) { print }' Dec 5 18:30:42 h743107 imap: seq1 28 seq2 16 Dec 5 18:32:43 h743107 imap: seq1 28 seq2 16
What exactly is broken here and how can I fix that?
Kris
-- Kristian =?iso-8859-15?q?K=F6hntopp?= kris@xn--khntopp-90a.de