[Dovecot] 1.0.alpha4 released

Anders Lund anders.lund at uninett.no
Fri Oct 21 18:01:56 EEST 2005


Tomi Hakala wrote:
> Anders Lund wrote:
> 
>>I've just upgraded dovecot from alpha3 to alpha4 and after the upgrade
>>I've experienced errors like:
>>
>>file mail-index-sync-ext.c: line 155 (get_ext_header): assertion failed:
>>(memcmp((char *)(ext_hdr + 1), ext->name, strlen(ext->name)) == 0)
> 
> Are these from IMAP processes?

Yes.

> Could you do "egrep -e "lock|mbox|mmap" dovecot.conf" and mail
> the output to list?

Guess you're not interested in the commented lines, so:

lock_method = fcntl
mbox_read_locks = fcntl dotlock
mbox_write_locks = fcntl dotlock

> Is your mail spool or indexes on a NFS mount?

No kind of NFS mounting on this host.

> Are you using Dovecot LDA?

No.

> Anyway, to help Timo to solve the problem please try to produce
> backtraces from cores you are hopefully getting on crashes.

I've not had any crash yet.

- Anders


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