I experienced the same problem after we applied the perl security updates for debian stable. Something bad happened with the lock file and the database was corrupted. I moved the bayes_* files aside and retrained the bayes database with known spam and ham. It worked fine afterwards.
I did not have to upgrade spamassassin to fix this. (I do need to upgrade, though ... ) Here is the debian security annuouncement: http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-431 -Eric Rz. On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:27:50PM +0100, Muenz, Michael wrote: > Dear list, > > yesterday I've installed via apt-get the perl updates from > security.debian.org. After that update bayes_db seems to > be broken (talks s.th. about untieing etc.). > Anybody on the list who makes the same expirience ? > I've deleted bayes_* and updated SA from 2.61. to 2.63. > Now bayes works fine again ... > > Michael
