[Dovecot] Problem (?) with 1.0-stable

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun May 8 19:16:58 EEST 2005


On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 10:05 +0200, Jakob Curdes wrote:
> ... Version from April 26, gives me the following errors in the imap log 
> file :
> 
> dovecot: May 04 09:56:58 Error: IMAP(m6933192-4): file mbox-sync.c: line 
> 1262 (mbox_sync_do): assertion failed: (sync_ctx->ibox->mbox_sync_dirty)
> dovecot: May 04 09:56:58 Error: child 10721 (imap) killed with signal 6
> 
> 
> This occurs sporadically and vanishes after some time. Is this something 
> to worry about or not.

Hmm. This crash should be now replaced with error "UIDs broken with
partial sync in mbox file ...". It still shouldn't have happened though.
I guess I'll have to look at the code more.

> I have
> 
> mbox_dirty_syncs = yes
> 
> Or does this just say "I am falling back to reading the whole mailbox"?

mbox_dirty_syncs means that it tries not to re-read the whole mailbox,
unless it has to. The error you got was caused by Dovecot thinking that
it had a non-dirty synced mbox but suddenly found that its UID headers
were broken, which shouldn't happen with non-dirty mboxes..

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