Re: [exim] An error message that elludes me

Am 13.01.2015 um 21:24 schrieb jpff:
> 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.

systemd stop exim
rm -f /var/spool/exim/db/retry
systemd start exim

The worst that can happen is, that you try to send out a bunch of emails
to servers, which do not take emails atm.

If that happens very often, there is really something wrong and you
should consider updating exim and all berkleytools with it.
If your hardrive is defectiv, you can check that first with smarttools
and/or with badblockchecktools. But, depending on how old your
systemsoftware is, consider upgrading it.

Marius