[Dovecot] corrupted .imap.index.log

Fredrick Backman backman at espresto.com
Thu Sep 2 13:43:25 EEST 2004


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.

Yes, it turned out that this guy is checking his mails from two 
locations simultaneously.

>> 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.

I will update our dovecot soon, so I'll just ignore these problems until 
then.

Kiitos :)


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