[Dovecot] Index corruption causes child process to die

Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen daniel at copyleft.no
Thu Oct 26 14:38:13 UTC 2006


Juha Saarinen wrote:

> Hmm, crap, it's happening again.
> 
> pid 94357 (imap), uid 1001: exited on signal 11
> 
> Oct 26 15:55:35 server dovecot: IMAP(user): Fixed index file
> //home/user Maildir/.journz/dovecot.index: first_recent_uid_lowwater
> 2629 -> 2628
> 
> Oct 26 15:55:35 server dovecot: IMAP(user): Corrupted index file
> //home/user/Maildir/.journz/dovecot.index: Duplicate header extension
> keywords
> Oct 26 15:55:35 server dovecot: child 94357 (imap) killed with signal 11
> 
> Let's see if flock does the same.

I wasn't able to draw any conclusions either way - I only get this problem 
on two heavily loaded servers, and the two altered options made them run
much slower so I had to revert. 

-- 
Daniel Mikkelsen
Copyleft Software AS


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