From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73807 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Greg Troxel] gnus/dovecot open transactions panic Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:29:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hbg9e8pm.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288719025 18815 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2010 17:30:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 17:30:25 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22176@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Nov 02 18:30:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PDKgc-000598-23 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:30:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PDKff-0007nV-Vl; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:29:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PDKfd-0007n9-Tr for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:29:17 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PDKfX-0004t9-8F for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:29:15 -0500 Original-Received: from linuxpal.mit.edu ([18.62.1.14]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PDKfW-0000kz-00 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:29:10 +0100 Original-Received: by linuxpal.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 9545) id E2B6318092; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 13:29:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Hashcash: 1:20:101102:ding@gnus.org::yNdrePrhKxfnUpzu:00000JI0 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:34:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73807 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Greg Troxel 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? :-) Dovecot author says this is the fix. I'll try it when I get a chance. I don't think any gnus workaround would be reasonable. http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/b30af25c622d --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (NetBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzQSmIACgkQH9p66AmO1g6VEwCfe7VUqaIdDIt9C55keMCy12Eg 4ZYAnjxrI31STwXOLkVwAAOXG58XqpdK =AgsT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--