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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:44:00PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> I experienced some random corruption of mails recently, and found 
>> series of log entries like this:
>>
>> Oct 31 08:08:22 xayide deliver(jonas-debian): file maildir-util.c:  
>> line 275 (maildir_hash): assertion failed: (*s != '/')
>
> This means dovecot-uidlist file is corrupted. This crash was fixed for  
> v1.1 by
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/5532bc0eb7bc

I found corrupted uidlist files, yes. But when I deleted them, pretty 
quickly they got corrupted again.

I have now compiled dovecot using a backported fixed flex, to see if 
that makes the corruption stop occurring.


>> I suspect this to be related to an amd64-specific bug in flex that 
>> was fixed in flex 2.5.35-3, which means a broken flex was used for 
>> compiling the current dovecot targeted for Lenny.
>
> Dovecot doesn't use flex elsewhere than in Sieve plugin.

...which I have enabled (and, if I recall correctly, that is reflected 
in the output I provided).


  - Jonas

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