On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:30:16PM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
The only way to remedy this situation is to remove the relevant log files. Anybody care to comment?
That's what I have done in the past. The problem is that the log files still have references to the now nonexistent mailboxes.db. What needs
Yes, but those transactions have already been commited, right?
Presumably.
At least in my case db_archive shows no log files in use.
Then the checkpoint might not make a difference.
to happen is that the mailbox in question needs to be removed from the BDB environment so we don't try to recover it. Its possible that doing a checkpoint (ctl_cyrusdb -c) before the conversion may solve the problem, but I have never tried it.
Thanks, I'll try this. One catch is that cyrus has to be running so that
a checkpoint can be made.
Why? I don't believe it has to be running. In fact, I just successfully checkpointed a stopped server.
Which brings me to the next question, when cyrus is cleanly shut down, does it perform a checkpoint? If not, then perhaps this should be added to the shutdown scripts.
No, it doesn't.
If I run "db_archive" in the DB environment, I get no log files listed, which seems to indicate that all transactions have already been commited. Perhaps just a coincidence in my very low traffic environment?
If the checkpoint doesn't work, then we need to find out the correct way to remove a database from a BDB environment.
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