Re: [exim] An error message that elludes me

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Author: jpff
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Subject: Re: [exim] An error message that elludes me
Thank you all for responses. I tried just deleting the retry data base
and it ran Ok for about 1 hour before ....

2015-01-13 19:00:06 Start queue run: pid=3795
2015-01-13 19:00:06 1YB4fs-0006qO-C3 Berkeley DB error: page 3: illegal
page type or format
2015-01-13 19:00:06 1YB4fs-0006qO-C3 Berkeley DB error: PANIC: Invalid
argument
2015-01-13 19:00:06 1YB4fs-0006qO-C3 Berkeley DB error: /var/spool/exim/db/retry
: pgin failed for page 3

so what could have corruoted the file? No other indications in the logs.
We had run file checks etc before

I am not very familiar with d=th BDB tiools. I found db_verify but no
documentation yet.

Maybe we just live wit it.

==John ff

On Tue, 13 Jan 2015, Jeremy Harris wrote:

> On 13/01/15 16:53, Andy Bennett wrote:
>>> Or is this a db error?
>>
>> It looks like the retry DB is corrupt.
>>
>> Maybe try investigating the /var/spool/exim/db/retry file with the BDB
>> tools?
>
> At worst, it's only a hint and can be blown away
> without risking mail lossage.
>
> http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-exim_utilities.html#SECThindatmai
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