From: Ken Murchison (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 13:24:24 EST
Andreas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:30:16PM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
>
>>>The only way to remedy this situation is to remove the relevant log files.
>>>Anybody care to comment?
>>
>>That's what I have done in the past. The problem is that the log files
>>still have references to the now nonexistent mailboxes.db. What needs
>
>
> Yes, but those transactions have already been commited, right?
Presumably.
> At least in
> my case db_archive shows no log files in use.
Then the checkpoint might not make a difference.
>
>
>>to happen is that the mailbox in question needs to be removed from the
>>BDB environment so we don't try to recover it. Its possible that doing
>>a checkpoint (ctl_cyrusdb -c) before the conversion may solve the
>>problem, but I have never tried it.
>
>
> Thanks, I'll try this. One catch is that cyrus has to be running so that
> a checkpoint can be made.
Why? I don't believe it has to be running. In fact, I just
successfully checkpointed a stopped server.
>
> Which brings me to the next question, when cyrus is cleanly shut down, does it
> perform a checkpoint? If not, then perhaps this should be added to the shutdown
> scripts.
No, it doesn't.
> If I run "db_archive" in the DB environment, I get no log files listed, which
> seems to indicate that all transactions have already been commited. Perhaps
> just a coincidence in my very low traffic environment?
If the checkpoint doesn't work, then we need to find out the correct way
to remove a database from a BDB environment.
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