Dovecot crash

Sat Dec 1 06:42:14 EET 2018

Hello all,
What happens if we are on mdbox with SiS? I read sometime back that deleting of indexes is not good is such case.

Rgds/DP
9849111010 

Sent from my iPhone. Pls excuse brevity and typos if any. 

> On 01-Dec-2018, at 1:49 AM, Thomas Durand <tom at rezoo.org> wrote:
> 
> Exactly - I removed then with 
> find . -name "dovecot.index*" -type f -delete
> 
> There is no need to restart dovecot. IMAP client will be forced to resync all the emails from the server.
> 
> 
>> Le 28 nov. 2018 à 23:20, JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> Thanks. Assuming that the IMAP mail directory for the account affected is under /home/xyz/mail, are you talking about the contents of the index directory, excluding the log file therein?
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 2:29 PM Thomas Durand <tom at rezoo.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I had the similar messages after an upgrade then downgrade. I was able to fix by removing all indexes files. 
>>> 
>>> Thomas 
>>> 
>>> > Le 28 nov. 2018 à 22:02, JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>> > 
>>> >   This happening when my Thunderbird client is trying to establish a connection with a Dovecot server. Some background first:
>>> > 
>>> >   1) I am running Thunderbird 6.20.1 from a Linux client.
>>> >   2) Other clients (e.g. Maildroid in my Android phone) do not have any  issues.
>>> >   3) The Dovecot software is version 2.2.9, running in a Linux server.
>>> >   4) This may be the root of the problem: at some point, the Dovecot software  was changed to      version 2.3.1, and the reverted to 2.2.9. The crash started to appear when this reversion took place.
>>> > 
>>> >   My guess is that upgrading to 2.3.1 will eliminate this problem. However, in  case that does not solve the problem, I would be grateful if anybody could throw some light into exactly what is going on here, and whether it can be fixed even without the need of upgrading to 2.3.1.
>>> > 
>>> >   What follows are the traces generated by Dovecot  2.2.9 when a connection is attempted from Thunderbird, with usernames and IP addresses disguised for privacy, and some blank lines inserted for readability:
>>> > 
>>> > Nov 28 13:36:20 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<xyz>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.yyy.z
>>> > zz.154, lip=aaa.bbb.ccc.7, mpid=29245, TLS, session=<q7jNhL97qQDMhbWa>
>>> > 
>>> > Nov 28 13:36:20 imap(xyz): Panic: file mail-index-sync-keywords.c: line 227 (key
>>> > words_update_records): assertion failed: (data_offset >= sizeof(struct mail_index_record))
>>> > 
>>> > Nov 28 13:36:20 imap(xyz): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.
>>> > 0(+0x65626) [0xb75ae626] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x6569f) [0xb75ae6
>>> > 9f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0xb756180e] -> /usr/lib/dove
>>> > cot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_keywords+0x707) [0xb76cb6b7] -> /usr
>>> > /lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_record+0xf7) [0xb76cc167] -
>>> > > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_map+0x2a4) [0xb76cd22
>>> > 4] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_map+0x57c) [0xb76bcb9c
>>> > ] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb7c2a) [0xb76b7c2a] -> /usr/lib
>>> > /dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb7daa) [0xb76b7daa] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libd
>>> > ovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_open+0x114) [0xb76b7f54] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libd
>>> > ovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_open+0xab) [0xb76a808b] -> /usr/lib/do
>>> > vecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x5a481) [0xb765a481] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdove
>>> > cot-storage.so.0(+0x5a6f2) [0xb765a6f2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.s
>>> > o.0(+0x7a017) [0xb767a017] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_o
>>> > pen+0x26) [0xb767a1d6] -> dovecot/imap(client_open_save_dest_box+0x79) [0x805dca
>>> > 9] -> dovecot/imap() [0x8052678] -> dovecot/imap(command_exec+0x32) [0x805d7a2]
>>> > -> dovecot/imap() [0x805c746] -> dovecot/imap() [0x805c820] -> dovecot/imap(clie
>>> > nt_handle_input+0x125) [0x805cad5] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x71) [0x805ce91
>>> > ] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x42) [0xb75c1292] -> /usr
>>> > /lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xdb) [0xb75c22cb] -> /usr/lib/
>>> > dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x48) [0xb75c0cd8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdo
>>> > vecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x2d) [0xb756728d] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x2bf) [0x
>>> > 8066fef] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb73cfdb6]
>>> > 
>>> > Nov 28 13:36:20 imap(xyz): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 29245 killed with
>>> >  signal 6 (core dumps disabled)
>>> > 
>>> > Nov 28 13:36:20 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<xyz>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.yyy.z
>>> > zz.154, lip=aaa.bbb.ccc.7, mpid=29247, TLS, session=<xPzShL97lADMhbWa>
>>> > 
>>> > Nov 28 13:36:21 imap(xyz): Panic: file mail-index-sync-keywords.c: line 227 (key
>>> > words_update_records): assertion failed: (data_offset >= sizeof(struct mail_inde
>>> > x_record))
>>> > 
>>> > Nov 28 13:36:21 imap(xyz): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.
>>> > 0(+0x65626) [0xb7757626] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x6569f) [0xb77576
>>> > 9f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0xb770a80e] -> /usr/lib/dove
>>> > cot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_keywords+0x707) [0xb78746b7] -> /usr
>>> > /lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_record+0xf7) [0xb7875167] -
>>> > > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_map+0x2a4) [0xb787622
>>> > 4] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_map+0x57c) [0xb7865b9c
>>> > ] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb7c2a) [0xb7860c2a] -> /usr/lib
>>> > /dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb7daa) [0xb7860daa] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libd
>>> > ovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_open+0x114) [0xb7860f54] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libd
>>> > ovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_open+0xab) [0xb785108b] -> /usr/lib/do
>>> > vecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x5a481) [0xb7803481] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdove
>>> > cot-storage.so.0(+0x5a6f2) [0xb78036f2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.s
>>> > o.0(+0x7a017) [0xb7823017] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_o
>>> > pen+0x26) [0xb78231d6] -> dovecot/imap(client_open_save_dest_box+0x79) [0x805dca
>>> > 9] -> dovecot/imap() [0x8052678] -> dovecot/imap(command_exec+0x32) [0x805d7a2]
>>> > -> dovecot/imap() [0x805c746] -> dovecot/imap() [0x805c820] -> dovecot/imap(clie
>>> > nt_handle_input+0x125) [0x805cad5] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x71) [0x805ce91
>>> > ] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x42) [0xb776a292] -> /usr
>>> > /lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xdb) [0xb776b2cb] -> /usr/lib/
>>> > dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x48) [0xb7769cd8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdo
>>> > vecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x2d) [0xb771028d] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x2bf) [0x
>>> > 8066fef] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb7578db6]
>>> > 
>>> > Nov 28 13:36:21 imap(xyz): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 29247 killed with
>>> >  signal 6 (core dumps disabled)
>>> > 
> 
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