Looks like you have a corrupted mailboxes database - if you run a reconstruct
at each end then it should be fine. Replication won't bail for an
actually-doesn't-exist mailbox, but it can't fix broken mailboxes, that's what
reconstruct is for.
Bron.
On Thu, 11 May 2017, at 01:01, Eric Cunningham wrote:
> Hi list, I'm running cyrus replication on cyrus 2.5.10. It seems
> whenever a folder is encountered in log-run that doesn't exist on the
> client and/or the server, the replication process logs "Error in
> do_sync(): bailing out! Bad protocol". Sometimes, it dies completely,
> other times it restarts at the beginning of the log-run file. But when
> it re-encounters the folder in question, the same failure occurs and the
> problem continuously loops until some manual action is taken. I have a
> checker script that attempts to restart a stopped sync but I haven't
> tried to code it to get past these types of folder errors. In the
> meantime, replication effectively stops and the replication log
> continuously builds in size. You might imagine my horror at discovering
> yesterday that replication of my production server with 1200 accounts
> had been failing for over 7 weeks unnoticed, generating 9.5 million
> lines in the replication log files. I had gotten out of the habit of
> daily monitoring of replication as it had been running fine and I
> eventually moved on to other things. I'm trying to get replication to
> run through the enormous backlog but am running into more similar folder
> issues that cause the process to fail, I make manual fixes, and start
> the process again. In my experience with this, reconstruction of the
> affected folders on the master host and copy host has no effect.
>
> Can this otherwise excellent feature be made more robust to work past
> these folder issues?
>
> Here are a couple of examples I've observed thus far of how the process
> is failing for me.
>
> --
>
> In this example, the subfolder "Fly America Foreign Travel" no longer
> existed on the master host but did exist on the copy host. To resolve
> this, I had to manually delete that folder from the copy host.
>
> May 9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: inefficient replication (8 >
> 5) user.jtaft.PO.Fly America Foreign Travel
> May 9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: FULLMAILBOX received NO
> response: IMAP_MAILBOX_NONEXISTENT No Such Mailbox
> May 9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: do_folders(): update failed:
> user.jtaft.PO.Fly America Foreign Travel 'Mailbox does not exist'
> May 9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: IOERROR: Mailbox does not exist
> May 9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: Error in do_sync(): bailing
> out! Mailbox does not exist
> May 9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: Processing sync log file
> /var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb/sync/log-run failed: Mailbox does not exist
> May 9 15:17:48 imap1 sync_client[34614]: Reprocessing sync log file
> /var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb/sync/log-run
>
> --
>
> In this example, the subfolder "Sohn" did not exist on the master host
> nor on the copy host. To resolve, I had to edit log-run and completely
> remove all entries for this "Sohn" subfolder.
>
> May 10 10:13:26 imap1 sync_client[47011]: IOERROR: zero length response
> to MAILBOXES (end of file reached)
> May 10 10:13:26 imap1 sync_client[47011]: IOERROR: zero length response
> to MAILBOXES (end of file reached)
> May 10 10:13:26 imap1 sync_client[47011]: IOERROR: zero length response
> to UNMAILBOX (end of file reached)
> May 10 10:13:26 imap1 sync_client[47011]: folder_delete(): failed:
> user.gg-chair.Trash.Sohn 'Bad protocol'
> May 10 10:13:26 imap1 sync_client[47011]: Error in do_sync(): bailing
> out! Bad protocol
> May 10 10:13:26 imap1 sync_client[47011]: Processing sync log file
> /var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb/sync/log-run failed: Bad protocol
>
> --
>
> Often, errors are logged without "bailing out!" and replication
> continues to run:
>
> May 10 10:45:00 imap1 sync_client[87438]: sync_mailboxes: doing 1000
> May 10 10:45:01 imap1 sync_client[87438]: sync_mailboxes: doing 1000
> May 10 10:45:24 imap1 sync_client[87438]: IOERROR: GUID mismatch
> /var/spool/cyrus/mail/c/user/cdm-lit/Sent/148.
> May 10 10:45:37 imap1 sync_client[87438]: IOERROR: zero length response
> to MAILBOX (end of file reached)
> May 10 10:45:37 imap1 sync_client[87438]: do_folders(): update failed:
> user.cdm-lit.Sent 'Bad protocol'
> May 10 10:45:37 imap1 sync_client[87438]: sync_mailboxes: doing 1000
>
> --
>
> Thank you, list!
>
> -Eric
>
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