DBERROR: annotations.db

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Sven Verluyten <sven.verluyten at be.easynet.net> [20060314 15:15]:
> We have a serieus problem on our kolab server
> It all came to our attention after beginning to test Toltec
> 
> - The toltec tests failed, saying the ANNOTATION test failed.
> - in the imap logfiles, we began to see error messages like:
> <error> imaps[21086]: DBERROR: skiplist 
> recovery /kolab/var/imapd/annotations.db: 1BF88 should be ADD or DELETE
> 
> - Later on, other clients, like Konsec, began displaying the same error
> - This has nothing to do with the seen DB, these don't fail
> - Also, what the strange thing is, the mail clients/server seem to keep 
> working, we don't really see a problem on client side, but there is one for 
> sure, as shown by the toltec & imapd output

Beware, your imapd will probably stop working at midnight.

> We have looked at numerous mailings, but found (except ppl with same problem) 
> no solutions.
> Even more, that de annotations.db is said not to be corrupt by a test we found 
> on https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue840
> The result was a 0, meaning there was no error converting the db to plaintext

See issue840, the script relies on the converting script of cyrus
and that doesn't see all types of corruption.

> We are looking for a solution.

Restore a working backup of annotations.db, or manually restore all
annotations using cyradm.

For the statistics: (you can also add this info to issue840)

Which distribution/kernel/glibc/filesystem do you use?

Which kind of CPU do you use?

Assuming you're using Linux, do you have more than one cpu in
cat /proc/cpuinfo?

Do you have hyperthreading enabled in the BIOS?

Thomas

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