[Dovecot] 1.0-test78

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jul 22 14:08:52 EEST 2005


On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 16:37 -0500, Nicholas Riley wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:46:01AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > http://dovecot.org/test/
> 
> I'm trying once again to upgrade from -test63 because some users
> reported problems.  First, I couldn't get my mailbox read/write locks,
> formerly set to "flock" to work at all; it just hung forever.  So I
> replaced it with "dotlock fcntl", and now things seem to work, but I
> get these messages:
> 
> dovecot: Jul 16 16:21:30 Error: IMAP(njr): file mbox-file.c: line 144 (mbox_file_seek): assertion failed: ((((char *)data - (char *)NULL) & 7) == 0)
> dovecot: Jul 16 16:21:30 Error: child 11736 (imap) killed with signal 6
> [...]
> dovecot: Jul 16 16:21:31 Error: IMAP(njr): file mbox-file.c: line 144 (mbox_file_seek): assertion failed: ((((char *)data - (char *)NULL) & 7) == 0)
> dovecot: Jul 16 16:21:31 Error: child 11760 (imap) killed with signal 6
> dovecot: Jul 16 16:21:34 Error: IMAP(njr): UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /usr/home/njriley/mail/2005-07
> 
> I get these messages every time I go offline/online in Apple Mail.
> Should I care?

That's an accidental assert I left to test78. Next release will rebuild
indexes instead of crashing there. Easiest way to fix this is to just
delete all Dovecot's index files.

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