On 1/6/2012 2:51 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 6.1.2012, at 23.41, David Egbert wrote:
On 1/6/2012 2:16 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 6.1.2012, at 22.44, David Egbert wrote:
dovecot: imap(xx...@xxxxx.com): Error:
readdir(/XXXX/XXXX/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXX/XXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/XXX) failed: Too
many levels of symbolic links
You have a symlink loop. Either a symlink that points to itself or one of the
parent directories.
I thought that might have been the case, but I checked and there are no
symlinks in that directory, or any of the directories above it in the path.
All of the directories and files were created by dovecot. I didn't notice this
in the logs until recently. The files are stored on an NFS Raid if that makes
any difference.
Well, then.. You have a bit too many Xes in there for me to guess which
readdir() is the one failing. I guess it's /new or /cur for a Maildir?
Anyway, readdir() is failing with ELOOP. Does it always fail with "Too many levels of symbolic
links" or is it sometimes different? This sounds like a bug in Linux NFS client code. You can
reproduce this always with this one user's Maildir? Can you do "ls" in the directory?
Sorry about the X's... it is a client directory. We support many
domains and their privacy is paramount. You are correct it is in the
/cur directory. I can LS all of directories without problems. This
user has 10+Gb in his mail box spread across 352 subscribed folders. As
for the logs it is always the directory, always the same error.
David Egbert
