dovecot - Sep 2005 - Lost transaction log file in alpha2

I had run alpha1 pretty uneventfully for several weeks. I upgraded to  
alpha2 a couple of days ago and have since suffered two incidents of  
"Lost transaction log", resulting in the client being unable to  
access the mailbox until I "rm dovecot.index.log*"

Sep 14 10:48:35 caddy dovecot: imap(jberry): Lost transaction log  
file /Users/jberry/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 1

I should point out that this is a server with a single imap user  
(myself) and that I know only one imap client was trying to access  
the server at that point in time (though the client sw Mail.app may  
have had multiple connections to the server).

Any suggestions/ideas/thoughts on whether something might have  
changed in alpha2 to start causing this?

James.

On Sep 14, 2005, at 11:04 AM, James Berry wrote:
> I had run alpha1 pretty uneventfully for several weeks. I upgraded  
> to alpha2 a couple of days ago and have since suffered two  
> incidents of "Lost transaction log", resulting in the client
being
> unable to access the mailbox until I "rm dovecot.index.log*"
This just happened to me again. Here's the where it first started  
showing up in the log:

Sep 16 14:27:13 caddy dovecot: imap(jberry): Maildir /Users/jberry/ 
Maildir sync: UID < next_uid (36243 < 36244, file =  
1126905722.Ve000002I164d7f.caddy.edworks.com:2,)
Sep 16 14:27:13 caddy dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jberry>,  
method=PLAIN, rip=24.20.133.214, lip=207.149.241.23, TLS
Sep 16 14:27:13 caddy dovecot: imap(jberry): Lost transaction log  
file /Users/jberry/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 1
Sep 16 14:27:17 caddy dovecot: imap(jberry): Lost transaction log  
file /Users/jberry/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 1
Sep 16 14:27:18 caddy dovecot: imap(jberry): Lost transaction log  
file /Users/jberry/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 1
Sep 16 14:27:19 caddy dovecot: imap(jberry): Lost transaction log  
file /Users/jberry/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 1
Sep 16 14:27:20 caddy dovecot: imap(jberry): Lost transaction log  
file /Users/jberry/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 1
Sep 16 14:27:21 caddy dovecot: imap(jberry): Lost transaction log  
file /Users/jberry/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 1

Once it gets in this state, the only way to recover from the failure  
seems to be to delete the log files. The problem does not heal itself.

-jdb

>
> Sep 14 10:48:35 caddy dovecot: imap(jberry): Lost transaction log  
> file /Users/jberry/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 1
>
> I should point out that this is a server with a single imap user  
> (myself) and that I know only one imap client was trying to access  
> the server at that point in time (though the client sw Mail.app may  
> have had multiple connections to the server).
>
> Any suggestions/ideas/thoughts on whether something might have  
> changed in alpha2 to start causing this?
>
> James.
>
>