[Dovecot] Panic in Dovecot 1.1.3: index-mail.c: line 1091: assertion failed: (!mail->data.destroying_stream)

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Sep 9 17:30:49 EEST 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 13:23 +0200, Peter Eriksson wrote:
> Maildir on NFS

This is the first time I've heard this happening with maildir. It's
always been with mboxes before.

> IMAP process crashes for certain (many, but not all) users when
> accessing certain folders (in the example below, in crashes when
> accessing my INBOX, about 1700 mails). I could access other
> mailboxes without problems. And a simple telnet to the imap port
> followed by a login works fine.

Any idea what the users were doing when it crashed? Was it just opening
the mailbox or opening some mail or deleting/copying mails?

> Erased the coredumps (was filling up the system too quickly) so I
> can't really produce a backtrace right now (had to back down to 1.0.13
> again even though that one has another core-dump-generating problem -
> but that is atleast limited to only one specific user so far). Going
> to set up a separate test server to test things more without disturbing
> our normal operations...

Some kind of a way to reproduce this would be helpful. Or I guess in
your case even a backtrace, since all the previous ones have been with
COPY command and mbox.

> mmap_disable: yes
> mail_nfs_index: yes

BTW. these can be "no" if you're storing indexes locally.
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