Keary Suska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Qmail stores references to messages in multiple locations in the queue. What
> this error likely means is that there are references to messages in the todo
> directory that don't exist in the mess directory. Find the messages via
> something like find /var/qmail/queue -name '*MESSAGEID*' where MESSAGEID is
> the id number of the message. Delete every instance of the troublesome
> message ID's.
Actually, I'm quite aware of this -- that's why in my original message,
I posted (among other things) the result of `find /var/qmail/queue -type f`
showing that there are _no_ files in the queue directory other than
lock/tcpto and lock/sendmutex. queue-fix (with the big-todo patch) says
the queue is fine.
To sum up: this is not simple queue corruption, caused by manually
removing files in the queue hierarchy. Something distinctly odd is going
on. I can stop qmail, verify no qmail processes are running, verify there
are no files in the queue structure other than the two mentioned above,
start qmail, and _still_ get error output about these particular files
in mess/*/ being missing. Where is qmail getting the necessary state
information to determine that these files should exist?
I've also just noticed something else odd about the error messages -- aren't
the files in the split directories normally named by inode number? In this
case, the "missing" files all share the names of the split directories that
qmail thinks they should be in -- i.e. mess/13/13, mess/14/14, etc.
Here's a listing of /var/qmail/queue/mess:
[root@charon mess]# pwd
/var/qmail/queue/mess
[root@charon mess]# ll
total 92
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 0/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Apr 9 1999 1/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 10/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 11/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 12/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jun 27 2000 13/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jun 27 2000 14/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jun 27 2000 15/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jun 27 2000 16/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jun 27 2000 17/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Feb 14 2000 18/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 May 11 2000 19/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Apr 9 1999 2/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jun 27 2000 20/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 21/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 22/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 3/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 4/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 5/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 6/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 7/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 8/
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jan 24 15:04 9/
I just don't get it. I've searched the archives of the list, and can't find
any occurrences of this. I'd appreciate any thoughts on what might be
causing this.
Charles
> > [root@charon queue]# ps auxw | grep qmail
> > [root@charon queue]# pwd
> > /var/qmail/queue
> > [root@charon queue]# find . -type f
> > ./lock/sendmutex
> > ./lock/tcpto
> > [root@charon queue]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start
> > Starting qmail: done.
> > [root@charon queue]# tail /var/log/maillog
> > Jan 24 16:02:49 charon qmail: 980373769.839878 warning: unable to stat
> > mess/13/13
> > Jan 24 16:02:49 charon qmail: 980373769.841153 warning: unable to stat
> > mess/14/14
> > Jan 24 16:02:49 charon qmail: 980373769.841305 warning: unable to stat
> > mess/15/15
> > Jan 24 16:02:49 charon qmail: 980373769.841445 warning: unable to stat
> > mess/16/16
> > Jan 24 16:02:49 charon qmail: 980373769.841572 warning: unable to stat
> > mess/17/17
> > Jan 24 16:02:49 charon qmail: 980373769.845169 warning: unable to stat
> > mess/18/18
> > Jan 24 16:02:49 charon qmail: 980373769.845323 warning: unable to stat
> > mess/19/19
> > Jan 24 16:02:49 charon qmail: 980373769.845463 warning: unable to stat
> > mess/20/20
> > Jan 24 16:02:49 charon qmail: 980373769.848179 warning: unable to stat
> > mess/21/21
> > Jan 24 16:02:49 charon qmail: 980373769.851135 warning: unable to stat
> > mess/22/22
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