Hi All,
Had another locking problem today and was able to get reasonably complete info.
Unfortunately, I
only had a limited time to debug since I di not identify the problem until long after
it started..
So here goes.
At the point I identified the problem, I had 6 blocked IMAP processes and
OK, had another crash today, but unfortunately the symbol table info for the lib
files was not loading properly so I could not get full details.I did a make
clean in the lib directory, recompiled cyrus and tested gdb and now the symbol
table is loading properly. Next time I should be able to
Hi Larry,
Thanks for the reply. Comments interspersed below:
Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
>This seems to mean that Cyrus uses the old style text file to store the
>seen info rather than a Berkely DB. Is there a particular reason this
>is defined this way by default? Is the Berkel
Hi Larry,
Thanks for the info, I finally had to shutdown Cyrus and restart since
the user's Mailbox had been locked out since 10/24.The problem
occurred 7 or 8 times this week on our other mail server however, so I am
sure I will be able to reproduce it next week and try to get more info.
I
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 20:49:17 +
From: Simon Loader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This doesn't seem to be the offending process; it's the open
> demonstrating the symptom, but much more important is the process that
> is holding the lock that it can't get.
>
> lsof on the
>
> This doesn't seem to be the offending process; it's the open
> demonstrating the symptom, but much more important is the process that
> is holding the lock that it can't get.
>
> lsof on the file that it is attempting to lock ("print filename" from
> gdb) will show what process is actually
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 09:07:32 -0600
From: John Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I did have a couple of questions that came out from looking at the
source.
First, in seen_db.c although all the comments reference the Berkely DB
structure for the seen file, there is a define statement
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 01:50:21 -0600
From: John Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Cyrus Experts,
Back on September 4, 2001, there was a discussion on this list
about a locking problem in Cyrus 2.0.16 where an imapd process
would get a lock on a seen file and not release it an all ot
Hi All,
I am trying to work through our file locking problem in Cyrus 2.0.16.
Since the problem appears to be tied to locking the seen file, I have
recompiled with SEEN_DEBUG turned on to see if I can get any more info.
I will let you know anything I find. Any other suggestions on how to
gather
Hi Cyrus Experts,
Back on September 4, 2001, there was a discussion on this list about a locking
problem in Cyrus 2.0.16 where an imapd process would get a lock on a seen file
and not release it an all other attempts to access that mailbox either via imapd
or lmptd would await the lock. There wa
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