[Dovecot] corrupted .imap.index.log

[Timo Sirainen]

On 31.8.2004, at 16:20, Fredrick Backman wrote:

> Hi, I'm using version 0.99.10.8 on debian 2.4.26 and am getting this 
> problem, can someone please shed some light over this?
>
> Aug 31 13:58:58 xxx imap(someone): file_wait_lock() failed with modify 
> log file /var/mail/someone_new/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.log: 
> Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> and then:
>
> Aug 31 14:00:58 xxx imap(someone): Couldn't lock modify log file 
> /var/mail/someone_new/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.log

Means that someone else had been keeping the lock for a long time. Do 
you use multiple clients? Although that shouldn't really be a problem 
either unless one client is downloading mails for a long time and 
another client tries to access the mailbox.

> and finally:
>
> Aug 31 14:26:35 xxx imap(someone): Corrupted modify log file 
> /var/mail/someone_new/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.log: used_file_size 
> larger than real file size (4096 vs 2576)

Well, that isn't very good.

Anyway, 1.0-tests have all of this code rewritten. I don't want to 
spend much time wondering about 0.99 indexing bugs.
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