[Dovecot-news] v2.2.29.rc1 released

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Tue Apr 11 19:40:47 EEST 2017


> On April 7, 2017 at 6:54 PM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > On April 7, 2017 at 6:48 PM "Daniel J. Luke" <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Apr 7, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:
> > >> On April 7, 2017 at 6:00 PM "Daniel J. Luke" <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> > >> 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.
> > > 
> > > Can you try moving it one folder up, so that it's not under .imap?
> > 
> > Sure, that fixes that, but I end up with lots of log messages like:
> > 
> > 2017-04-07 11:43:53.958590-0400  localhost log[5770]: (libdovecot.0.dylib) indexer-worker(dluke): Error: Syncing mailbox lucene-indexes/_0.cfs failed: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file
> > 
> > (and the lucene-indexes "folder" appears in Mail.app, which is going to confuse some of my users)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Daniel J. Luke
> 
> Just wanted to factor in the bug.
> 
> So.. as workaround, you *could* move indexes to separate directory, using INDEXES= parameter. And move the lucene-indexes to this folder. But thank you, this helps a bit.
> 
> Aki

Hi Daniel,

https://github.com/dovecot/core/compare/c42ec3f%5E...2bc82f0.patch

we believe this fixes your issue.

Aki


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