Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 148808
cyrus-imapd doesn't start if started for the first time with the 2.2.10-3.fc3
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:00 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050115 Galeon/1.3.19 Description of problem: I did a fresh install of FC3 on a computer. cyrus-imapd was disabled by default. Then I installed all updates via yum. I think found cyrus-imapd wouldn't start. It will start if the database conversion command is commented out in /etc/rc.d/init.d/cyrus-imapd, but otherwise errors. The reason seems to be two things. One the databases are empty, which explains why people who update after having started it once with the original version work. The second is that the default empty database files are skiplist, and the /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cvt_cyrusdb_all command expects them to be berkeley. I was successful in uninstalling cyrus-imapd and subpackages, removing the directories, installing the original version, starting cyrus-imapd, updating cyrus-imapd, and restarting cyrus-imapd. The original version is cyrus-imapd-2.2.6-2.FC3.6. var/lib/imap/rpm/cvt_cyrusdb_all.log: you are using /var/lib/imap/sieve as your sieve directory. fatal error: can't open old database Converting from /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db (berkeley) to /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db.flat (flat) ERROR: unable to convert /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db from berkeley to flat fatal error: can't open old database Converting from /var/lib/imap/annotations.db (berkeley) to /var/lib/imap/annotations.db.flat (flat) ERROR: unable to convert /var/lib/imap/annotations.db from berkeley to flat Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.2.10-3.fc3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC3 2. Update cyrus-imapd 3. Start cyrus-imapd Actual Results: service cyrus-imapd start Starting cyrus-imapd: preparing databases... error! [FAILED] Expected Results: service cyrus-imapd start Starting cyrus-imapd: preparing databases... done. [ OK ] Additional info:
I ran into exactly the same problem today on a freshly installed and updated FC3 system. As a shot in the dark I simply renamed the mailboxes.db file to mailboxes.db.bak and restarted cyrus-imapd. This appears to have caused the database files to be rebuilt and everything now seems to be OK. Since I'm very new to cyrus-imap, I'm not 100% sure this was entirely the best method but it did allow me to continue to work with the installation and learn more about the application. Mike
I just found out that a recent update of file(1) (file-4.12-1.FC3.1) mistakenly identifies skiplist files as Apple Quicktime files. Fix that (move the skiplist entry above the multimedia stuff in /usr/share/file/magic and do file -C in /usr/share/file) and the cyrus startup will work.
I too had this problem. I tried: - Move the existing /var/lib/imap out of the way and use 'mkimap' to re- create. This failed. Then I created a blank /var/lib/imap and successfully ran 'mkimap' but this didn't create all the necessary files. Gave up. - Searched the web for ages, couldn't find much. - Looked in bugzilla and found this report. Did the same as Mike suggests in Comment #1 (move the old mailboxes.db file and restart) and this seems to work. Well, it starts up at least.
Ran into the same problem too, but luckily I tried mr. Ãgústsson's trick; moving the skiplist entry to the top of the list. service cyrus-imapd start now initialized the databases and started. Now I only need to figure out how to convert the old UW-IMAP mail files to cyrus-compatible format....
I filed a bug in file-4.12-1.FC3.1, the id is #154342
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154342 ***