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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [Greg Troxel] gnus/dovecot open transactions panic
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:34:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38w1g34e3.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <smu7hh0czuc.fsf@linuxpal.mit.edu>

Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com> writes:

>   Oct 29 19:58:23 linuxpal dovecot: IMAP(gdt): Panic: Trying to close mailbox foo.bar with open transactions
>   Oct 29 19:58:23 linuxpal dovecot: dovecot: child 28914 (imap) killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - set mail_drop_priv_before_exec=yes)
>
> and in *imap log*
>
>   19:58:23 1537 EXAMINE "foo.bar" (QRESYNC (1153316454 1))
>
> followed by 109 more EXAMINE lines, all with qresync params.
> Given that it's dovecot that's crashing, this is feeling like a dovecot bug.

It sounds like it, but there might be a Gnus pattern that triggers the
bug, and perhaps Gnus could work around that.  Do you see anything in
particular that makes dovecot panic?  Is there a specific mailbox that
triggers this, or, uhm.  Something?  :-)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen




  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-30  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-25 23:45 Greg Troxel
2010-10-26  7:04 ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-27 11:24   ` Greg Troxel
2010-10-29 22:53     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-30  0:02       ` Greg Troxel
2010-10-30  0:34         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2010-10-30  0:52           ` Greg Troxel
2010-11-02 17:29           ` Greg Troxel
2010-11-24  2:19         ` Greg Troxel

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