Your message dated Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:38:27 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#538952: dovecot-imapd: 'sort' command generates a
traceback
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regarding dovecot-imapd: 'sort' command generates a traceback
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Package: dovecot-imapd
Version: 1:1.1.13-2~bpo50+1
Severity: important
Hello,
when sending a 'sort' command, dovecot disconnects the client and
generates a traceback in the log:
[session]
$ telnet <host> 143
Connected to <host>
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK Dovecot ready.
a login <username> <password>
a OK Logged in.
a select inbox
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $MDNSent)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $MDNSent
\*)] Flags permitted.
* 42 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UNSEEN 16] First unseen.
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1243421055] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 333] Predicted next UID
a OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
a sort (from) iso-8859-1 all
Connection closed by foreign host.
[log]
dovecot: 2009-07-28 08:12:59 Panic: IMAP(<username>): file
index-sort-string.c: line 168 (index_sort_node_add): assertion failed:
(ctx->lowest_nonexpunged_zero == 0 || ctx->lowest_nonexpunged_zero >
node->seq)
dovecot: 2009-07-28 08:12:59 Error: IMAP(<username>): Raw backtrace:
imap [0x80d8c81] -> imap [0x80d8d02] -> imap [0x80d8689] -> imap
[0x80a1501] -> imap(index_sort_list_add_string+0x43) [0x80a1653] ->
imap(index_storage_search_next_nonblock+0xc1) [0x809e7e1] ->
imap(mailbox_search_next+0x2a) [0x80a685a] -> imap(imap_sort+0xdc)
[0x806901c] -> imap(cmd_sort+0x24c) [0x806166c] -> imap [0x8062cdc] ->
imap [0x8062d73] -> imap [0x806332d] -> imap(client_input+0x5e)
[0x80637ae] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0xe0) [0x80e0c70] ->
imap(io_loop_run+0x20) [0x80e00e0] -> imap(main+0x472) [0x806b9b2] ->
/lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7db4455] -> imap
[0x805cd61]
Let us know if we can support you in any way, since it's really
important to us to get this fixed asap.
Regards,
Sandro
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dovecot-imapd depends on:
ii dovecot-common 1:1.1.13-2~bpo50+1 secure mail server that
supports m
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15+lenny1 SSL shared libraries
dovecot-imapd recommends no packages.
dovecot-imapd suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1:1.1.16-1
Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 16:34 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 14:05 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>>
>>>> This should help: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/12670c6d0c10
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Timo,
>>> as Joel pointed out (privately) the patch you reference above is already
>>> included in 1.1.3 (released on Mar 2009, while the patch is from Sep '08).
>>>
>> 1.1.13 you mean. And actually I checked that before giving the link, but
>> looks like I also looked at 1.1.3 release date instead of 1.1.13 :)
>>
>> Anyway, can you reproduce this easily with some mailbox? Could you send
>> me such mailbox's dovecot.index, dovecot.index.log and dovecot-uidlist
>> files? None of them contain anything sensitive about the mailbox. After
>> that you can just delete dovecot.index* files and it should work again
>> (until it reaches the same buggy condition again).
>>
>
> I looked at it a bit more closely. I don't think that condition should
> ever happen normally. Anyway I changed the code so that it'll reset the
> sort indexes automatically instead of crashing:
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/fd48a9c61b6c
>
Hi Timo,
thanks for your interest and the proposed patch, and sorry for the late
reply (holiday).
We have fixed the problem upgrading to 1.1.16, hence closing this report.
Regards,
Sandro
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