[Dovecot] Index corruption causes child process to die

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Nov 12 14:02:56 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 15:52 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 20:46 +0100, Luigi Rosa wrote:
> > Timo Sirainen said the following On 7/11/2006 22:39:
> > 
> > > Oh, right, the patch.
> > 
> > It happened again ad was more serious.
> > 
> > {two mail arrived from two different mailing lists, Thunderbirds moves 
> > them in their mailbox but...}
> > 
> > Nov  8 20:36:44 mail dovecot: IMAP(lrosa): Fixed index file 
> > /var/spool/mail2/lrosa/.Postfix/dovecot.index: 
> > first_recent_uid_lowwater 10272 -> 10271
> > Nov  8 20:36:44 mail dovecot: IMAP(lrosa): Corrupted index file 
> > /var/spool/mail2/lrosa/.Postfix/dovecot.index: Duplicate header 
> > extension keywords
> > Nov  8 20:36:44 mail dovecot: child 12176 (imap) killed with signal 11
..
> I tried reproducing this for a while with Thunderbird, but couldn't get
> these kind of errors.

No, forget it. I was finally able to reproduce this myself after setting
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes. :) Now lets try to fix it..

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