dovecot.index.pvt reset
Aki Tuomi
aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Thu Sep 20 19:16:47 EEST 2018
> On 20 September 2018 at 19:00 Chris <chris2014 at postbox.xyz> wrote:
>
>
> All,
>
> maybe that's a similar issue like the one mentioned in [1],
> nevertheless I started a new thread.
>
> Using public folders:
>
> location =
> maildir:/var/vmail/public/:LAYOUT=fs:INDEXPVT=%h/.public-indexes
>
> When deleting a public maildir in filesystem (rm -rf ...) and copying
> back from backup, it's older than the users' dovecot.index.pvt files.
> (%h is in another directory). Then the following error appears:
>
> Sep 19 07:27:00 mail1 dovecot: imap(dr):
> Error: /var/vmail/users/dr/.public-indexes/folder1/folder2/dovecot.index.pvt
> reset, view is now inconsistent
>
This happens because the index.pvt is no longer valid, because you rm -rf'ed things.
> Sometimes even a panic:
>
> Sep 19 07:27:00 mail1 dovecot: imap(dr): Panic: file mail-index-map.c:
> line 548 (mail_index_map_lookup
> _seq_range): assertion failed: (first_uid <= last_uid)
>
> When deleting such a maildir via IMAP or doveadm, the error isn't
> appearing.
>
> Is there anything else, one has to consider, when restoring public
> maildirs from rsync backup?
rm all the dovecot.index.pvt files. The assert-crash should probably not happen at all.
Aki
>
> TIA!
>
> Chris
>
>
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> [1] 5e26fce3-5f9f-219e-55fb-48981027dca5 at shift.agency
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