[Dovecot] thunderbird not receiving new incoming mail: Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file
Hi there,
I am running dovecot 1.0.10 and thunderbird 3.1.10 for OSX 10.6.7 and I am finding that new imap mail is not coming into my INBOX folder on thunderbird.
there is an error message "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file" in the syslog
here is my INBOX .imap dir
~/mail/.imap/INBOX$ ls -l total 75100K -rw------- 1 blah blah 1462024 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 blah blah 75153408 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 blah blah 1464 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 blah blah 195812 Jun 11 17:23 dovecot.index.log.2
what is the best way to troubleshoot this problem? what else can I look at?
Cheers, Noah
On 6/11/2011 11:34 PM, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
Hi there,
I am running dovecot 1.0.10 and thunderbird 3.1.10 for OSX 10.6.7 and I am finding that new imap mail is not coming into my INBOX folder on thunderbird.
there is an error message "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file" in the syslog
here is my INBOX .imap dir
~/mail/.imap/INBOX$ ls -l total 75100K -rw------- 1 blah blah 1462024 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 blah blah 75153408 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 blah blah 1464 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 blah blah 195812 Jun 11 17:23 dovecot.index.log.2
what is the best way to troubleshoot this problem?
As always, use deductive reasoning. If it was working fine, and suddenly stopped working, something obviously changed. Find what has changed.
What does your MTA tell you about these messages that are not hitting the inbox? Is your MTA still delivering mail to Dovecot?
BTW, always post full error lines from your logs, not the partial junk you inserted above. We need to see the daemon and time stamp. That lock timeout could be generated by any number of deamons. For troubleshooting mail issues you'd typically look in your mail log, not in syslog.
-- Stan
On 6/12/11 12:34 AM, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
I am running dovecot 1.0.10 and thunderbird 3.1.10 for OSX 10.6.7 and I am finding that new imap mail is not coming into my INBOX folder on thunderbird.
there is an error message "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file" in the syslog
here is my INBOX .imap dir
~/mail/.imap/INBOX$ ls -l total 75100K -rw------- 1 blah blah 1462024 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 blah blah 75153408 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 blah blah 1464 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 blah blah 195812 Jun 11 17:23 dovecot.index.log.2
what is the best way to troubleshoot this problem? what else can I look at?
Hey there Noah, long time no see!
Here, if I'm not mistaken, one imap process is waiting for a lock on dovecot.index.log while another imap process already has it locked.
Are your spools on an NFS-mounted filesystem? That dovecot.index.cache file is gigantic; how big is the spool itself? If it's big, and it's in mbox format, and the machine is swamped, that sync could easily take long enough to cause another imap process to time out waiting for the lock.
Man, can you imagine how awesome our mail servers would've been if we had Dovecot back in the Digex days in the mid-90s? Oh, to have a time machine..
-Dave-- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL
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Dave McGuire
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Noah Garrett Wallach
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Stan Hoeppner