[Dovecot-news] v2.2.29.rc1 released

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Apr 7, 2017, at 3:01 AM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:
>> On April 7, 2017 at 9:38 AM Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> On 7 Apr 2017, at 2.25, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Apr 6, 2017, at 1:33 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>>>> Planning to release v2.2.29 on Monday. Please find and report any bugs before that.
>>> 
>>> I'm seeing still seeing the assert that started showing up for me with 2.2.28 (https://www.dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2017-February/107250.html)
>>> 
>>> Below I generate it using doveadm with dovecot 2.2.29rc1 (output slightly cleaned up so the backtrace is easier to read)
>>> 
>>> % sudo doveadm index -A \*
>>> doveadm(dluke): Panic: file mailbox-list.c: line 1159 (mailbox_list_try_mkdir_root): assertion failed: (strncmp(root_dir, path, strlen(root_dir)) == 0)
>> 
>> This is with mbox? I thought this had been happening already a long time.. Or if not mbox, what's your doveconf -n?

this is mbox & lucene

> for mbox and lucene, there is a workaround, which is to create directory under the INDEXES directory called lucene-indexes.
> 
> This way the directory creation is not attempted, this is a known bug, but just hasn't been fixed yet.

That directory already exists.

mail_location = mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=~/.mbox

% ls -l ~/Mail/.imap/lucene-indexes/
total 429344
-rw-------  1 dluke  dluke   209M Apr  6 11:12 _30ms.cfs
-rw-------  1 dluke  dluke   1.0M Apr  7 08:10 _30rt.cfs
-rw-------  1 dluke  dluke   7.2K Apr  7 08:10 _30ru.cfs
-rw-------  1 dluke  dluke   6.3K Apr  7 08:11 _30rv.cfs
-rw-------  1 dluke  dluke   7.6K Apr  7 08:11 _30rw.cfs
-rw-------  1 dluke  dluke   3.8K Apr  7 10:57 _30rx.cfs
-rw-------  1 dluke  dluke   3.8K Apr  7 10:58 _30ry.cfs
-rw-------  1 dluke  dluke   3.8K Apr  7 10:58 _30rz.cfs
-rw-------  1 dluke  dluke   2.3K Apr  7 10:58 dovecot-expunges.log
-rw-------  1 dluke  dluke    20B Apr  7 10:58 segments.gen
-rw-------  1 dluke  dluke   244B Apr  7 10:58 segments_6214

When running 2.2.27 this doesn't happen.
-- 
Daniel J. Luke