[Dovecot] 1.1.2: imap crash with SIGSEGV

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On Aug 1, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>
>> #1  0x080ba2fd in mail_transaction_log_lock_head (log=0x91cfd68)
>>    at mail-transaction-log.c:419
>> #2  0x080ba36d in mail_transaction_log_sync_lock (log=0x91cfd68,
>>    file_seq_r=0xbff348a4, file_offset_r=0xbff34880)
>>    at mail-transaction-log.c:451
>> #3  0x080c44bb in mail_index_fsck (index=0x91cf828) at mail-index- 
>> fsck.c:424
>
> What were the error messages for this user? What happened here is that  
> dovecot.index was broken (why?) and dovecot.index.log file didn't exist 
> (why?) which caused the crash when trying to open the index. Fixed the 
> crash itself anyway: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/1c010fadc9c9

>From the logs:

Aug  1 15:01:09 postamt dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<loginname>, method=PLAIN, rip=141.42.4.251, lip=141.42.4.250
Aug  1 15:02:16 postamt dovecot: IMAP(loginname): copy: uid=118, dest=Administrator, msgid=<mailman.9757.1217560680.10595.mailman at charite.de>, size=2940
Aug  1 15:02:16 postamt dovecot: IMAP(loginname): delete: uid=118, msgid=<mailman.9757.1217560680.10595.mailman at charite.de>
Aug  1 15:02:16 postamt dovecot: IMAP(loginname): expunge: uid=118, msgid=<mailman.9757.1217560680.10595.mailman at charite.de>, size=2940
Aug  1 15:02:27 postamt dovecot: IMAP(loginname): delete: uid=54, box=Trash, msgid=<607b88f3ed74c30e75c82536d9c750ce.squirrel at webmail.charite.de>
Aug  1 15:02:27 postamt dovecot: IMAP(loginname): expunge: uid=54, box=Trash, msgid=<607b88f3ed74c30e75c82536d9c750ce.squirrel at webmail.charite.de>, size=4116
Aug  1 15:02:48 postamt dovecot: IMAP(loginname): fscking index file /home/g/z/loginname/Maildir/.Drafts/dovecot.index
Aug  1 15:02:51 postamt dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<loginname>, method=PLAIN, rip=141.42.4.251, lip=141.42.4.250
Aug  1 15:08:52 postamt dovecot: IMAP(loginname): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=1356/18528

The core file was written: 2008-08-01 15:02

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