[Dovecot] Corrupted transaction log file / record size too small

[Timo Sirainen]

On Oct 10, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Steven Winikoff wrote:

>> I had hoped v1.1.3 would have fixed this. But perhaps this is also
>> related to the disk quota issues. Are there any other errors that are
>> logged before the assert?
>
> Nothing obvious, I'm afraid.  For example, this occurence is typical  
> of
> the 24 which we've logged since Sept. 26 (which is as far back as we
> keep dovecot log data online; for the record, we upgraded from 1.0.10
> to 1.1.3 on Sept. 23):
..
>   Oct  8 13:56:40 alcor dovecot: Panic: imap[15143] USER4,  
> NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN: file index-mail.c: line 1091 (index_mail_close):  
> assertion failed: (!mail->data.destroying_stream)

Hmm. I think I thought of a different assert before when commenting.  
This assert should be fixed by 1.1.4 / this patch: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/3b0d23902a32

>>>  - this doesn't happen often, but once in a while we see assertion
>>>    failures at line 163 of src/pop3-login/client-authenticate.c or
>>>    line 200 of src/imap-login/client-authenticate.c
>>
>> I think I've managed to get this also sometimes when killing dovecot-
>> auth or doing something else "wrong" (I don't remember exactly), but
>> not during normal operation. I should have noted down how to  
>> reproduce
>> this when I still knew how to reproduce it..
>
> For us this appears to happen during normal operations.  That's not to
> say I've never killed a dovecot-auth process :-), but it's not  
> something
> I do often (in fact the last time I did was when I recompiled 1.1.3 as
> described previously, which by now was ten days ago).

I'll try to look into this soon.
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