[Dovecot] Corrupted transaction log
Paul Warren
pdw at ex-parrot.com
Tue Jan 2 12:10:22 UTC 2007
Happy New Year.
Does anyone have any ideas on the problem below? It seems a fairly
serious bug that Dovecot can't open a Maildir without corrupting its own
transaction log.
Paul
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 06:12:04PM +0000, Paul Warren wrote:
> I've just installed dovecot and am trying to use it to access my Maildir
> folders. Unfortunately:
>
> 1 SELECT INBOX
> 1 NO Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2006-12-22 18:06:11]
>
> Log says:
>
> Dec 22 17:55:56 sphinx dovecot: IMAP(pdw): Corrupted transaction log file /home/pdw/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x20, offset=24, size=0)
> Dec 22 17:55:57 sphinx dovecot: IMAP(pdw): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /home/pdw/Maildir/dovecot.index
> Dec 22 17:55:57 sphinx dovecot: IMAP(pdw): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /home/pdw/Maildir/dovecot.index
>
> Any clues? Deleting ~/Maildir/dovecot* doesn't seem to help. I can't
> find any documentation relating to the transaction log, or an
> explanation of why a fresh install of dovecot might choose to create a
> corrupt one.
>
> thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
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