[Dovecot] signal 11 crash, sometimes, during mbox bz2 decompression

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Sep 12 14:28:52 EEST 2011


On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 02:55 -0600, Mike Brown wrote:

> On this system, I have the same setup with bz2-compressed mbox files. 
> They're still inaccessible from Thunderbird, but dovecot isn't crashing 
> with signal 11 anymore. Instead, the maillog says this for every 
> compressed box it tries to check:
> 
> Sep 12 02:37:14 chilled dovecot: imap(mike): Error: 
> read(/home/mike/mail/old/sent-1999-07.bz2) failed: Invalid argument (uid=2)
> Sep 12 02:37:14 chilled dovecot: imap(mike): Disconnected: Internal 
> error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2011-09-12 
> 02:37:14] bytes=5492/2664368
> Sep 12 02:37:14 chilled dovecot: imap(mike): Error: Next message 
> unexpectedly lost from mbox file /home/mike/mail/old/sent-1999-07.bz2 at 
> 536 (cached)

Oh, wonder why no one else has complained about that. Fixed:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/a930318a74a1






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