Locking Errors

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Thu Oct 12 17:05:05 EEST 2017


> On Oct 12, 2017, at 8:56 AM, Bill Shirley <bill at KnoxvilleChristian.org> wrote:
> 
> Is everyone's email going to /mail/user/Maildir ?
> 
> What's the output of 'dovecot -n' ?
> 
> Bill
> 
> On 10/12/2017 9:47 AM, List wrote:
>> We recently upgraded to version 2.2.10-8 on Centos 7 (from 2.2.10-7) and immediately started experiencing errors in the log file that look like this:
>> 
>> Error: Broken file /mail/user/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist line 891: Invalid data:
>> Error: Timeout (180s) while waiting for lock for transaction log file /mail/user/Maildir/dovecot.index.log
>> Error: /mail/user/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was lowered (421 -> 419, hdr=418)
>> Error: Corrupted index cache file /mail/user/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
>> Error: Broken file /mail/user/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot-uidlist line 156: Invalid data:
>> Error: Corrupted index cache file /mail/user/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
>> Error: Index /mail/user/Maildir/dovecot.index: Lost log for seq=2 offset=2392
>> Error: fcntl(write-lock) locking failed for file /mail/user/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Stale file handle
>> 
>> We are not sure what might be causing this, can anyone help illuminate what’s going on?
> 

Bill, no I just changed the log output to mask the real usernames, these would be different users.  Here is dovecot -n

# 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf line 27: Invalid size: $default_vsz_limit


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