Re: [Dovecot] failed: Too many levels of symbolic links

2012-01-09 Thread David Egbert
On 1/6/2012 3:30 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 7.1.2012, at 0.10, David Egbert wrote: 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

[Dovecot] failed: Too many levels of symbolic links

2012-01-06 Thread David Egbert
All, My dovecot install works great except for one error I keep seeing this in my logs. The folder has 7138 messages in it. I am informed the user they needed to reduce the number of messages in the folder and believe this will fix the problem. My question is about where the problem lies.

Re: [Dovecot] failed: Too many levels of symbolic links

2012-01-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 6.1.2012, at 22.44, David Egbert wrote: dovecot: imap(xx...@x.com): Error: readdir(///X/X/XXX/XXX/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.

Re: [Dovecot] failed: Too many levels of symbolic links

2012-01-06 Thread David Egbert
On 1/6/2012 2:16 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 6.1.2012, at 22.44, David Egbert wrote: dovecot: imap(xx...@x.com): Error: readdir(///X/X/XXX/XXX/XXX) failed: Too many levels of symbolic links You have a symlink loop. Either a symlink that points to

Re: [Dovecot] failed: Too many levels of symbolic links

2012-01-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
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...@x.com): Error: readdir(///X/X/XXX/XXX/XXX) failed: Too many levels of symbolic links You have a

Re: [Dovecot] failed: Too many levels of symbolic links

2012-01-06 Thread David Egbert
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...@x.com): Error: readdir(///X/X/XXX/XXX/XXX) failed: Too

Re: [Dovecot] failed: Too many levels of symbolic links

2012-01-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.1.2012, at 0.10, David Egbert wrote: 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