imap db not readable after upgradr to 9.10

[Joern Muehlencord]

Binary package hint: cyrus-imapd-2.2

After upgrade von 9.04 to 9.10 mail.info and mail.err showed the following error
Oct 26 19:18:46 moonworld cyrus/imap[15183]: DBERROR: critical database situation
Oct 26 19:18:46 moonworld cyrus/notify[15184]: DBERROR: critical database situation
Oct 26 19:18:46 moonworld cyrus/notify[15186]: DBERROR: critical database situation
Oct 26 19:18:46 moonworld cyrus/notify[15187]: DBERROR: critical database situation
Oct 26 19:18:46 moonworld cyrus/imap[15185]: DBERROR: critical database situation
(repeating several times a second)

Occured errors
The email clients configured could not connect.
/etc/init.d/cyrus22 stop did not work - error occurred while stopping

Workaround solution:
After stopping (killing) cyrmaster I did the following
su - cyrus
cd /var/lib/cyrus
rm db/*
rm db.backup1/*
rm db.backup2/*
rm deliver.db
rm tls_sessions.db
exit

And started cyrus again. Email server / all clients seem to work ok again.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 26 19:56:02 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: cyrus-common-2.2 2.2.13-16ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: cyrus-imapd-2.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Marc Schumann (elmanso)]

This problem also exits at my update from jaunty to karmic.

Solution works too.

[Mark Ellis (mark-mpellis)]

It would seem that jaunty cyrus (version 2.2.13-14ubuntu3) is linked against libdb4.6, whereas the karmic version (2.2.13-16ubuntu1) is linked against libdb4.2, not good.

I can confirm that downgrading to the previous cyrus versions works perfectly.

[Charles (slivkoff)]

Can someone post some steps to rebuild cyrus from the source with a patch to link against libdb4.6?

[Mark Ellis (mark-mpellis)]

Apply the attached patch, make sure you have libdb4.6-dev installed, and rebuild. I haven't tried to make this patch perfect, it's just enough to allow you to use db4.6

[Ondřej Surý (ondrej)]

This will go away with newer cyrus-imapd-2.2, once it gets pulled from Debian. Berkeley DB upgrades are now automatic.