I have run into this several times, not just with spamassassin. To fix
it:

apt-get install libdb2-util libdb3-util
for i in bayes_seen bayes_toks ; \
  do mv $i $i.old; db_dump $i.old | db3_load $i; \
  done

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:19:30PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> I am running Debian spamassassin v2.63-1, and have been for many months,
> at which time I upgraded from previous versions.  Everything has been
> working as expected, until sometime last Sunday, 15 August, whereupon --
> in hindsight -- I find thousands of the following errors:
> 
>     Cannot open bayes databases /home/mds/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie 
> failed:  
>     Cannot open bayes databases /home/mds/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie 
> failed: File exists 
> 
> I have *not* changed any spamassassin configuration, nor have I upgraded
> it.
> 
> However, on that date, I upgraded from Perl v5.8.3x to v5.8.4-2.
> 
> What is going on?  bugs.debian.org does *not* show anything, in this
> regard; nor does this list's archive.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -- 
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> 
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