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[Scott Zahn]

Ah, so *that's* why I didn't see my reply appearing on the list!  I'll repost so it gets
archived.

On Thu, August 3, 2006 16:07, David Jonas wrote:
> Just a note, try to reply to the message list when you post replies. I
> don't mind getting the email, but other users may need the information!
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:59 -0400, Scott Zahn wrote:
>> On Thu, August 3, 2006 15:28, David Jonas wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:07 -0400, Scott Zahn wrote:
>> >> Hey everyone, I'm trying version 1.0rc2, via the rpm at ATrpms.  I'm running on
>> CentOS
>> >> 4.3 on an Opteron system.  I have this running stably on a 32 bit system, but I'm
>> >> crashing constantly on a 64 bit system.
>> >>
>> >> Here's what I'm getting in my mail logs when I try to log in via IMAP:
>> >>
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:21 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN,
>> >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105
>> >> (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) ==
>> >> data_size)
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN,
>> >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3208 (imap) killed with signal 6
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105
>> >> (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) ==
>> >> data_size)
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN,
>> >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3210 (imap) killed with signal 6
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file index-mail.c: line 105
>> >> (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) ==
>> >> data_size)
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN,
>> >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3212 (imap) killed with signal 6
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709
>> >> (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size
>> ==
>> >> data_size)
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN,
>> >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: IMAP(scottz): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709
>> >> (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size
>> ==
>> >> data_size)
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<scottz>, method=PLAIN,
>> >> rip=::ffff:192.168.1.183, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.21
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3214 (imap) killed with signal 6
>> >> Aug  3 15:01:22 lisa dovecot: child 3218 (imap) killed with signal 6
>> >
>> > I believe this has to do with how the index files are written, with a 32bit or 64
>> > bit offset. If you remove all the index files, etc from the mailbox when you switch
>> > between the two, or compile with the specific offset, it should work
>> > fine.
>>
>> You're right.  I should have looked closer at the log entries.  I went to my maildir
>> did
>> a find . -name "dovecot.*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f, which got rid of all the index
>> files, but left the uidlists alone.  That worked.  The 64 bit dovecot is now running
>> fine.  So I guess we know that a 32 bit and a 64 bit dovecot can't both use the same
>> mail store.
>>
>> Doesn't the dovecot front page talk about sanity checks being done to prevent this
>> kind
>> of stuff?  This makes dovecot seem brittle.  Anyway, thanks for the help.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Scott
>>
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