<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Exactly - I removed then with <div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class=""><b class="">find</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> . -name "dovecot.index*" -type f -delete</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">There is no need to restart dovecot. IMAP client will be forced to resync all the emails from the server.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 28 nov. 2018 à 23:20, JCA <<a href="mailto:1.41421@gmail.com" class="">1.41421@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">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?</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 2:29 PM Thomas Durand <<a href="mailto:tom@rezoo.org" class="">tom@rezoo.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br class="">
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I had the similar messages after an upgrade then downgrade. I was able to fix by removing all indexes files. <br class="">
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Thomas <br class="">
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> Le 28 nov. 2018 à 22:02, JCA <<a href="mailto:1.41421@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">1.41421@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br class="">
> <br class="">
> This happening when my Thunderbird client is trying to establish a connection with a Dovecot server. Some background first:<br class="">
> <br class="">
> 1) I am running Thunderbird 6.20.1 from a Linux client.<br class="">
> 2) Other clients (e.g. Maildroid in my Android phone) do not have any issues.<br class="">
> 3) The Dovecot software is version 2.2.9, running in a Linux server.<br class="">
> 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.<br class="">
> <br class="">
> 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.<br class="">
> <br class="">
> 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:<br class="">
> <br class="">
> Nov 28 13:36:20 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<xyz>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.yyy.z<br class="">
> zz.154, lip=aaa.bbb.ccc.7, mpid=29245, TLS, session=<q7jNhL97qQDMhbWa><br class="">
> <br class="">
> Nov 28 13:36:20 imap(xyz): Panic: file mail-index-sync-keywords.c: line 227 (key<br class="">
> words_update_records): assertion failed: (data_offset >= sizeof(struct mail_index_record))<br class="">
> <br class="">
> Nov 28 13:36:20 imap(xyz): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.<br class="">
> 0(+0x65626) [0xb75ae626] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x6569f) [0xb75ae6<br class="">
> 9f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0xb756180e] -> /usr/lib/dove<br class="">
> cot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_keywords+0x707) [0xb76cb6b7] -> /usr<br class="">
> /lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_record+0xf7) [0xb76cc167] -<br class="">
> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_map+0x2a4) [0xb76cd22<br class="">
> 4] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_map+0x57c) [0xb76bcb9c<br class="">
> ] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb7c2a) [0xb76b7c2a] -> /usr/lib<br class="">
> /dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb7daa) [0xb76b7daa] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libd<br class="">
> ovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_open+0x114) [0xb76b7f54] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libd<br class="">
> ovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_open+0xab) [0xb76a808b] -> /usr/lib/do<br class="">
> vecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x5a481) [0xb765a481] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdove<br class="">
> cot-storage.so.0(+0x5a6f2) [0xb765a6f2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.s<br class="">
> o.0(+0x7a017) [0xb767a017] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_o<br class="">
> pen+0x26) [0xb767a1d6] -> dovecot/imap(client_open_save_dest_box+0x79) [0x805dca<br class="">
> 9] -> dovecot/imap() [0x8052678] -> dovecot/imap(command_exec+0x32) [0x805d7a2]<br class="">
> -> dovecot/imap() [0x805c746] -> dovecot/imap() [0x805c820] -> dovecot/imap(clie<br class="">
> nt_handle_input+0x125) [0x805cad5] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x71) [0x805ce91<br class="">
> ] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x42) [0xb75c1292] -> /usr<br class="">
> /lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xdb) [0xb75c22cb] -> /usr/lib/<br class="">
> dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x48) [0xb75c0cd8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdo<br class="">
> vecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x2d) [0xb756728d] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x2bf) [0x<br class="">
> 8066fef] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb73cfdb6]<br class="">
> <br class="">
> Nov 28 13:36:20 imap(xyz): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 29245 killed with<br class="">
> signal 6 (core dumps disabled)<br class="">
> <br class="">
> Nov 28 13:36:20 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<xyz>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.yyy.z<br class="">
> zz.154, lip=aaa.bbb.ccc.7, mpid=29247, TLS, session=<xPzShL97lADMhbWa><br class="">
> <br class="">
> Nov 28 13:36:21 imap(xyz): Panic: file mail-index-sync-keywords.c: line 227 (key<br class="">
> words_update_records): assertion failed: (data_offset >= sizeof(struct mail_inde<br class="">
> x_record))<br class="">
> <br class="">
> Nov 28 13:36:21 imap(xyz): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.<br class="">
> 0(+0x65626) [0xb7757626] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x6569f) [0xb77576<br class="">
> 9f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0xb770a80e] -> /usr/lib/dove<br class="">
> cot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_keywords+0x707) [0xb78746b7] -> /usr<br class="">
> /lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_record+0xf7) [0xb7875167] -<br class="">
> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_map+0x2a4) [0xb787622<br class="">
> 4] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_map+0x57c) [0xb7865b9c<br class="">
> ] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb7c2a) [0xb7860c2a] -> /usr/lib<br class="">
> /dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xb7daa) [0xb7860daa] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libd<br class="">
> ovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_open+0x114) [0xb7860f54] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libd<br class="">
> ovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_open+0xab) [0xb785108b] -> /usr/lib/do<br class="">
> vecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x5a481) [0xb7803481] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdove<br class="">
> cot-storage.so.0(+0x5a6f2) [0xb78036f2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.s<br class="">
> o.0(+0x7a017) [0xb7823017] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_o<br class="">
> pen+0x26) [0xb78231d6] -> dovecot/imap(client_open_save_dest_box+0x79) [0x805dca<br class="">
> 9] -> dovecot/imap() [0x8052678] -> dovecot/imap(command_exec+0x32) [0x805d7a2]<br class="">
> -> dovecot/imap() [0x805c746] -> dovecot/imap() [0x805c820] -> dovecot/imap(clie<br class="">
> nt_handle_input+0x125) [0x805cad5] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x71) [0x805ce91<br class="">
> ] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x42) [0xb776a292] -> /usr<br class="">
> /lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xdb) [0xb776b2cb] -> /usr/lib/<br class="">
> dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x48) [0xb7769cd8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdo<br class="">
> vecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x2d) [0xb771028d] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x2bf) [0x<br class="">
> 8066fef] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb7578db6]<br class="">
> <br class="">
> Nov 28 13:36:21 imap(xyz): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 29247 killed with<br class="">
> signal 6 (core dumps disabled)<br class="">
> <br class="">
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