dovecot - Jun 2004 - Errors and periodic corruption using 99.10.5 release with mbox

Hi,

I'm seeing these errors in our logs periodically:

file istream.c: line 135 (i_stream_skip): assertion failed: (stream->v_size 
== 0 || stream->v_offset + count <= stream->v_size)

Timeout leak: 0x8069328

Any idea on what may be causing these?  System is freebsd, format is mbox.

I'm also seeing periodic corruption of mailboxes.  It's easily fixed 
because it's always a few stray lines of text left at the beginning of the 
mbox file above the From  I'm currently trying to find out more about what 
actions may cause it.

/steve

I've seen the same thing...   in .4 we had blank lines at the top of the 
file, which always seemed to fix themselves... however with .5 you get 
an error stating the file is not in mbox format and it dies.  There are 
usually three lines at the top, with only a few characters in the second 
line:

(blank)
    somegarbage here
(blank)
 From blah at doh.com .....

The error messages with .4 were:

Jun  5 00:06:23 hostname pop3(username): Error indexing mbox file 
/var/mail/username: LF not found where expected

But with .5, they simply state the file is not in mbox format and fails.


Stephen K. Gielda wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing these errors in our logs periodically:
>
> file istream.c: line 135 (i_stream_skip): assertion failed: 
> (stream->v_size == 0 || stream->v_offset + count <=
stream->v_size)
>
> Timeout leak: 0x8069328
>
> Any idea on what may be causing these?  System is freebsd, format is 
> mbox.
>
> I'm also seeing periodic corruption of mailboxes.  It's easily
fixed
> because it's always a few stray lines of text left at the beginning of 
> the mbox file above the From  I'm currently trying to find out more 
> about what actions may cause it.
>
> /steve

-- 
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PowWeb Hosting                http://www.powweb.com

/(bb|[^b]{2})/,  that is the Question.

mysql>SELECT * FROM user WHERE clue > 0;
Empty set (0.03 sec) 

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die... 
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of
nothing...

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At 09:20 PM 6/5/2004, James Moser wrote:
>I've seen the same thing...   in .4 we had blank lines at the top of the
>file, which always seemed to fix themselves... however with .5 you get an 
>error stating the file is not in mbox format and it dies.  There are 
>usually three lines at the top, with only a few characters in the second
line:
>
>(blank)
>    somegarbage here
>(blank)
> From blah at doh.com .....
>
>The error messages with .4 were:
>
>Jun  5 00:06:23 hostname pop3(username): Error indexing mbox file 
>/var/mail/username: LF not found where expected
>
>But with .5, they simply state the file is not in mbox format and fails.

This is exactly what I've seen too in regards to the corruption (both .5 
and .4).

/steve



>Stephen K. Gielda wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm seeing these errors in our logs periodically:
>>
>>file istream.c: line 135 (i_stream_skip): assertion failed: 
>>(stream->v_size == 0 || stream->v_offset + count <=
stream->v_size)
>>
>>Timeout leak: 0x8069328
>>
>>Any idea on what may be causing these?  System is freebsd, format is
mbox.
>>
>>I'm also seeing periodic corruption of mailboxes.  It's easily
fixed
>>because it's always a few stray lines of text left at the beginning
of
>>the mbox file above the From  I'm currently trying to find out more
about
>>what actions may cause it.
>>
>>/steve
>
>
>--
>James L Moser                 james at powweb.com
>PowWeb Hosting                http://www.powweb.com
>
>/(bb|[^b]{2})/,  that is the Question.
>
>mysql>SELECT * FROM user WHERE clue > 0;
>Empty set (0.03 sec)
>Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die... Health 
>nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of
nothing...
>
>
>