[Dovecot] Search failure

Daniel L. Miller dmiller at amfes.com
Tue Mar 1 21:17:54 EET 2011


On 2/16/2011 11:35 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 21:15 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>
>> doveadm(dmiller at amfes.com): Panic: file istream-limit.c: line 79
>> (i_stream_limit_seek): assertion failed: (v_offset<=
>> lstream->v_size)
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/7705bd04924c removes this crash,
> but hides the error.
>
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/c9af551124fb hopefully makes it
> log an "Ext refs metadata corrupted" error.

Applied patches, then performed a search.  got all kinds of fun 
feedback...here's a small sampling

root at bubba:/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/mdbox# doveadm search -u 
dmiller at amfes.com TEXT xyzxyz
392b0c265aa1c94cd45100003bc41c5f 10906
392b0c265aa1c94cd45100003bc41c5f 10911
doveadm(dmiller at amfes.com): Error: Corrupted dbox file 
/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/mdbox/storage/m.2223 (around offset=36650): 
Ext refs metadata corrupted: 293271 161935 B76 
8a/bf/8abf3af65396470c3d39379d922108f9fc46050b-bf22cc2e12ec524dde6c00003bc41c5f
doveadm(dmiller at amfes.com): Error: Corrupted dbox file 
/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/mdbox/storage/m.2223 (around offset=36650): 
uid=12937 points to broken data at offset=36620
doveadm(dmiller at amfes.com): Warning: mdbox 
/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/mdbox/storage: rebuilding indexes

meanwhile, had a "tail -f /var/log/mail.err" running...had a few of 
these pop up
Mar  1 11:12:37 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller at amfes.com): Error: Recent 
flags state corrupted for mailbox Lists.Fire-Alarm
Mar  1 11:12:40 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller at amfes.com): Error: 
/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/mdbox/mailboxes/Lists/Dovecot-Users/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index 
reset, view is now inconsistent

-- 
Daniel


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